Hi folks!
> Indeed, this would be pretty bad. I'm not convinced that moria1
> provides truncated responses though. It could also be that it
> compresses results for every new request and that compressed responses
> randomly differ in size, but are still valid compressions of the same
> input. Kostas, do you want to look more into this and open a ticket if
> this really turns out to be a bug?
I did check each downloaded file, each was different in size etc., but not all of them were valid, from a shallow look at things (just chucking the file to zlib and seeing what comes out).
Ok, I'll try looking into this. :) do note that exams etc. are still ongoing, so this will get pushed back, if anybody figures things out earlier, then great!
> Tor clients use the ORPort to fetch descriptors. As I understand it
> the DirPort has been pretty well unused for years, in which case a
> regression there doesn't seem that surprising. Guess we'll see.
Noted - OK, will see!
Re: python url request parallelization: @Damian: in the past when I wanted to do concurrent urllib requests, I simply used threading.Thread. There might be caveats here, I'm not familiar with the specifics. I can (again, (maybe quite a bit) later) try cooking something up to see if such a simple parallelization approach would work? (I should probably just try and do it when I have time, maybe will turn out some specific solution is needed and you guys will have solved it by then anyway.)
Cheers
Kostas.