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Re: [tor-bugs] #5018 [Tor]: don't start ClientTransportPlugin proxies until we have a bridge that wants them
#5018: don't start ClientTransportPlugin proxies until we have a bridge that wants
them
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Reporter: arma | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component: Tor | Version:
Keywords: pt tor-bridge | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Description changed by arma:
Old description:
> Eventually we want to ship the standard Vidalia bundle with a set of
> supported client transports. We don't want to launch all of the possible
> transports when Tor starts, because most users won't ever configure a
> bridge line that asks for a given transport.
>
> So the client managed transports should launch only when we are
> configured to use a bridge that needs them.
>
> And maybe they could be closed after we no longer have any bridges that
> need them. That could certainly wait and be considered a "later feature"
> though.
>
> Do we foresee any client transports that would want to start earlier than
> when a bridge shows up that wants to use them? I guess that ties into
> #5010.
>
> Another option would be for Vidalia to paw through your bridge lines and
> know to setconf a given ClientTransportPlugin line when it sees a certain
> type of bridge line. Putting the smarts in Vidalia is probably a poor
> choice though.
>
> [I'm not sure which component this should be in -- either a Tor one or
> the pluggable transport one. Picking the one Nick is more likely to see,
> for now.]
>
> [I'm also not sure which milestone to use. We can push it back to 0.2.4
> if it's too much like a feature. That would mean that our "normal clients
> using pluggable transports" bundles will want to use 0.2.4.]
New description:
Eventually we want to ship the standard Tor Browser Bundle with a set of
supported client transports. We don't want to launch all of the possible
transports when Tor starts, because most users won't ever configure a
bridge line that asks for a given transport.
So the client managed transports should launch only when we are configured
to use a bridge that needs them.
And maybe they could be closed after we no longer have any bridges that
need them. That could certainly wait and be considered a "later feature"
though.
Do we foresee any client transports that would want to start earlier than
when a bridge shows up that wants to use them? I guess that ties into
#5010.
Another option would be for Vidalia to paw through your bridge lines and
know to setconf a given ClientTransportPlugin line when it sees a certain
type of bridge line. Putting the smarts in Vidalia is probably a poor
choice though.
[I'm not sure which component this should be in -- either a Tor one or the
pluggable transport one. Picking the one Nick is more likely to see, for
now.]
[I'm also not sure which milestone to use. We can push it back to 0.2.4 if
it's too much like a feature. That would mean that our "normal clients
using pluggable transports" bundles will want to use 0.2.4.]
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/5018#comment:7>
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