On 8 Sep 2015, at 08:45, Yawning Angel yawning@schwanenlied.me wrote:
So, we currently have a Pluggable Transport (PT) spec, and it kind-of sort-of works (The documentation is a mess that I'm working on cleaning up, but it's an orthogonal issue for how well it works).
There are a number of problems with the current PT spec that require breaking backward compatibility to fix, so eventually I would like to do so.
I'm soliciting input on what people would also like to see in a (currently hypothetical) PT spec 2.0 beyond what I already have in mind:
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UNLIKELY:
- Specify an interface for where fork()/exec() isn't possible (iOS). I don't think this is makes sense because it is probably too platform/caller specific.
I imagine that this would require a PT-as-thread(s) interface, which is out of scope, as iOS is a single platform. It seems to me that using a PT on iOS could be done in a similar way to using tor. (That is, if you can’t fork tor from an iOS app, then forking PTs is the least of your worries.)
I’m hoping someone has developed a generic way of doing this, at least for network apps. What are the ChatSecure people doing for their XMMP + Tor chat accounts? Launching pthreads?
Tim (teor)
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