commit c3d7124b3880117c5c064876401f9dedfe7e367c Author: Karsten Loesing karsten.loesing@gmx.net Date: Tue Sep 24 13:43:36 2013 +0200

Add Rob van der Hoeven's HAR suggestion. --- 2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex index 1fe89ec..d67bd62 100644 --- a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex +++ b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex @@ -217,8 +217,17 @@ requests.% Deciding which data to store should be the responsibility of whoever designs a Torperf experiment, though formats should be somewhat uniform between experiments. -A possible results data format could be JSON, but other data formats are -plausible, too. +A possible results data format could be based on JSON,% +\footnote{In particular, we could use a de-facto standard like the HAR +(HTTP Archive) format to store measurements results. +Advantages are that such a format is widely used and that there are a lot +of off-the-shelve tools that can process this format. +Disadvantages are that such a format captures a lot of meta data that are +not relevant to us, and that we'd have to add tor-specific data fields to +the format which wouldn't be processed by existing tools. +Note that we could use such a format only for request data, not for +tor-specific data like building circuits and attaching streams.} +but other data formats are plausible, too.

\subsubsection{Results web interface}