Re: [tor-bugs] #29207 [Circumvention/Snowflake]: New design for broker -- proxy protocol for snowflakes

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#29207: New design for broker -- proxy protocol for snowflakes
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 Reporter:  cohosh                               |          Owner:  ahf
     Type:  task                                 |         Status:
                                                 |  assigned
 Priority:  Very High                            |      Milestone:
Component:  Circumvention/Snowflake              |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  snowflake, design, ex-sponsor-19,    |  Actual Points:
  anti-censorship-roadmap                        |
Parent ID:                                       |         Points:  5
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor28-must
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Comment (by cohosh):

 Replying to [comment:15 dcf]:
 > Replying to [comment:13 serna]:
 > > Replying to [comment:5 cohosh]:
 > > > As referenced in #29426, the broker currently gives proxies a 504
 message if no client is available which is a questionable design
 > >
 > > I suggest changing the status to 204 No Content, it would represent
 that there's no error but it also no one to connect to.
 >
 > I disagree here. It's better not to hide ''any'' necessary information
 in the HTTP layer, because not every way of interacting with the broker
 will have those HTTP features. See for example comment:11:ticket:25985.
 Even assuming HTTP, codes like 204 are probably less likely to pass
 untouched by proxies. I propose to just always use status code 200, unless
 there is a genuine internal server error, and encode ''all'' necessary
 information in the HTTP body. We're not designing a REST interface here.

 Okay, this makes sense to me. So the idea would be to change all codes to
 200 and then do a redesign as suggested in #30704.

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