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Re: [tor-dev] Feasibility of using a Tor Browser plugin as a PT component?



It seems the right thing to do is mimic a browser, and I can think of at
least three ways to do that:
 1. Try really hard, using NSS or some other library, to look like a
    particular browser.
 2. Run a second browser, apart from Tor Browser, that receives commands
    from a client PT program and makes the HTTPS requests it is
    commanded to.
 3. Run a browser plugin *inside* Tor Browser, that makes HTTPS requests
    *directly on the Internet, without going through Tor*. That is, the
    plugin receives commands from the client PT program, and then
    bypasses all of Tor Browser's proxy settings in order to send HTTPS
    requests to the web site fronting the circumvention.

It's the third option I want to ask about. The first option puts us on
the parrot treadmill. The second has the usability and distribution
problems of running two browsers at once.

Usability might not be such an issue if you're using a headless browser.
Distribution still would be.
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