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[deprecated] small Firefox extension turning Firefox into a bridge for censored users in countries with oppressive regimes
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tor-flashproxy-badge/
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Update flashproxy.js to include connectivity change #9

Closed bastik-1001 closed 11 years ago

bastik-1001 commented 11 years ago

I asked why I get these errors that FF can't connect to ws:xxx:9000 on Trac.

People using the bundle most likely don't set-up port-forwarding as they "just" use the bundle that includes Flash Proxy.

Please, see the response by arlolra. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9008#comment:1 and the commit https://gitweb.torproject.org/flashproxy.git/commit/c1768feacccd71bbba821299b95c809c82c2dee1

Beside not bugging the relay, (which is not my main concern) it's better to connect to the relay if an actual client is seeking service to provide better statistics for the metrics page.

The diff listing the changes: https://gitweb.torproject.org/flashproxy.git/blobdiff/e992fc9f441e3dd71ff6ac3e11aa9c27361a5abc..c1768feacccd71bbba821299b95c809c82c2dee1:/proxy/flashproxy.js

Also you may don't wanna count these "false-alerts" in the status message of the add-on as it indicates a greater usage of the proxy than actually present.

Edit: Fixed spelling mistake in the title

reezer commented 11 years ago

I changed to an approach that makes it unnecessary to update flashproxy.js