commit 6d0b74692a960ae24c988edd9b95643930b349ff Author: Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing@gmx.net> Date: Mon Sep 9 10:40:15 2013 +0200 Add Zack's code that makes TBB and Selenium play nice together. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005390.html --- 2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex index 4295aea..6cfbcad 100644 --- a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex +++ b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex @@ -217,7 +217,16 @@ them public if needed, and do a trial deployment somewhere.% \footnote{\url{https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7516}} An experiment making these more realistic measurements should use something like Selenium to control an actual Tor Browser to make -requests. +requests.% +\footnote{Related to this, Zack Weinberg has written code that downloads +the present Tor Browser alpha and Python Selenium client and +monkey-patches them to play nice together; see +\url{https://github.com/zackw/tailwagger}. +This code is very specialized for his requirements right now, but might +still be of use to us. +We should look especially at what is done to TBB and python-selenium by +the patches under pkg/tor-browser-3.0a3 and pkg/python-selenium-2.33.0, +and the TbbDriver class in client/tbbselenium.py.} As a variant, this experiment should be run with other Firefox versions, e.g. that one that uses optimistic data.% \footnote{\url{https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3875}}