[tor-relays] (Announcement) WebTunnel, a new pluggable transport for bridges, now available for deployment

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Thu Jun 29 17:35:31 UTC 2023


On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 03:38:13PM +0100, Shelikhoo wrote:
> How to test and report issues
> -----------------------------
> 
> You can test the WebTunnel bridge by using the most recent version of Tor
> Browser Alpha (https://www.torproject.org/download/alpha/). Currently,
> WebTunnel is only distributed over the HTTPS distributor (torrc
> setting:'BridgeDistribution https').
> 
> You can report issues on the Tor Project GitLab Anti-censorship group:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtunnel.
> 
> Given that this new PT is only available now on Tor Browser Alpha, relay
> operators should not expect significant usage or a large number of users at the
> moment.
> 
> Please let us know if you encountered any difficulty with WebTunnel setup.
> Thanks for your contribution to the Tor ecosystem.

I tried getting a bridge line from
https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges/?transport=webtunnel
but it gave me an error: "It seems there was an error getting your
QRCode."

Are there just not enough bridges for the distributor to distribute yet?


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