Re: Holy shit I caught 1

[Mike Perry <mikepery@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Roger Dingledine (arma@xxxxxxx):

> Actually, it would be smarter to add a controller interface to let
> the controller inform Tor of new opinions it should have. For example,
> "this server is not running". Then we could do all the smarts in the
> controller, where they should be.
> 
> The actual interface will be a bit delicate though, since we want Tor
> to do some of the thinking and the controller to do other of the thinking.
> 
> As a first step though, we could make the controller changes sticky,
> meaning that Tor doesn't do any thinking for servers that the controller
> has given it an opinion on.

KO.

An interface to suck a signature-verified directory out of Tor via the
control-port or some other means would also be nice.

> Check out
> https://tor-svn.freehaven.net/svn/torctl/trunk/python/

Ok, I will consider rewriting it for this python interface. Have to
learn python first, which has been on my TODO list for some time, so
hopefully it will happen. I would guess the directory notification
interface won't appear for a while in Tor either, so I probably have
time. When 0.1.2 stabilizes?

In the meantime I will keep my rickety perl running and will keep in
contact with the list when I notice things.

> Also check out Geoff's python Tor controller (which uses the above
> scripts) at http://afs.eecs.harvard.edu/~goodell/blossom/

I actually had a look at blossom, but didn't see that it was using a 
standard torctl interface. Probably just me not groking python tho.

-- 
Mike Perry
Mad Computer Scientist
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