After reading Local Connections, Local Connections in Tor Browser and Local Connections Exception Threat Analysis I’m confused how are the connections to localhost happening. Is traffic to 127.0.0.1 going through Tor?
Let’s say that there is a cryptocurrency node listening on 127.0.0.1:5555, if I connect a cryptocurrency wallet running on the same Workstation to 127.0.0.1:5555 will that connection go over Tor?
If there is a service listening on 127.0.0.1:6666 and I connect to it on Tor Browser (after making exception using network.proxy.no_proxies_on) will that connection go over Tor?
I’m asking this because I’m not sure how is local traffic happening on Whonix. As I understand on normal operating system traffic to loopback interface doesn’t leave the machine but since all traffic on Whonix goes through Gateway does that include traffic to 127.0.0.1?