On 19/04/14 00:07, Michael Wolf wrote:
I think I can make some improvements to the consensus-health page (mostly removing redundant formatting code in the HTML), but I can't seem to find the git repo for the project listed at https://gitweb.torproject.org/
Could someone point me in the right direction?
https://gitweb.torproject.org/doctor.git/blob/refs/heads/java:/src/org/torpr...
We almost shut down this service a couple of months ago, because we have a Python replacement for the DocTor service that periodically checks the consensus for problems. But then we decided to keep the website output because we don't have a full replacement yet. This is the reason why the code is so "well hidden".
I another pertinent question would be: is anyone using any scripts that scrape this page, which might be broken if things are changed?
I'd say don't worry about that.
An example of a change could be: since the flags in the "Consensus" column seem to always be blue, remove all the <font color="blue"> tags, (and closing tags) in the consensus column, and replace them with one class per <td> in that column. I estimate that this change alone would save about 575KiB in the uncompressed HTML. That's about 10% of the document's uncompressed size, without even using any CSS3 trickery.
Happy to apply such a patch. Please open a ticket on Trac in the DocTor component.
Thanks!
All the best, Karsten