commit 32c5609ab34f00e6ef92b75e37c68fe1d4b6386e Author: David Fifield david@bamsoftware.com Date: Wed Jul 4 08:16:52 2012 -0700

Remove some more references to Adobe Flash. --- README | 8 +++----- doc/design.txt | 18 ++++++++---------- facilitator.py | 3 --- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README b/README index 71fbffe..8b7e9b5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -2,8 +2,7 @@

This is a set of tools that make it possible to connect Tor through an browser-based proxy running on another computer. The flash proxy can be -run just by opening a web page in a computer that has Flash Player -installed. +run just by opening a web page in a browser.

There are five main parts. Our terminology for each part is in quotes. 1. The Tor "client," running on someone's localhost. @@ -46,9 +45,8 @@ if you are able to configure port forwarding or receive direct connections from the Internet.

If you don't get a connection within 30 seconds or so, make sure someone -with Flash Player is viewing http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/. -There aren't yet enough operational proxies that one is available all -the time. +is viewing http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/. There aren't yet +enough operational proxies that one is available all the time.

=== Direct TCP connection

diff --git a/doc/design.txt b/doc/design.txt index ecee83c..c8141dd 100644 --- a/doc/design.txt +++ b/doc/design.txt @@ -19,16 +19,14 @@ Design of flash proxies temporary and short-lived, but their number will be great enough that they can't all be blocked effectively.

- The implementation of a browser-based proxy using Adobe Flash or other - networking technologies is complicated by restrictions that prevent it - being a straightforward proxy. Chief among these is the lack of - listening sockets. Flash and, for example, WebSockets, can only - initiate outgoing connections, not receive incoming ones. The flash - proxy can only connect to external hosts by connecting directly to - them. The other significant restriction is that the proxy cannot - connect to just any destination. A third, but less important, - restriction is that browser-based networking does not provide - low-level socket access such as control of source address. + The implementation of a browser-based proxy using WebSocket is + complicated by restrictions that prevent it being a straightforward + proxy. Chief among these is the lack of listening sockets. WebSocket + can only initiate outgoing connections, not receive incoming ones. The + flash proxy can only connect to external hosts by connecting directly + to them. Another, but less important, restriction is that + browser-based networking does not provide low-level socket access such + as control of source address.

2. Components

diff --git a/facilitator.py b/facilitator.py index 64de7a6..2a04e71 100755 --- a/facilitator.py +++ b/facilitator.py @@ -253,9 +253,6 @@ class Handler(BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler): if reg: client_str = str(reg) else: - # Send an empty string rather than a 404 or similar because Flash - # Player's URLLoader can't always distinguish a 404 from, say, - # "server not found." client_str = "" self.send_response(200) self.send_header("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded")