[anti-censorship-team] bridgedb+rdsys test setup

meskio meskio at torproject.org
Mon Feb 28 17:02:20 UTC 2022


Quoting David Fifield (2022-02-28 17:33:51)
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 12:43:24PM +0100, meskio wrote:
> > Quoting David Fifield (2022-02-28 09:54:28)
> > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 01:45:50AM -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 06:17:47PM +0100, meskio wrote:
> > > > > How to access the different distributors:
> > > > > * email. Just write an email to bridges-test at torproject.org from your 
> > > > >   @torproject.org email, and should get a reply with bridges.
> > > > 
> > > > I sent 2 emails from dcf at torproject.org and did not get any reply. One
> > > > email had subject "get bridges" and an empty body; the other had an
> > > > empty subject and "get transport obfs4" in the body.
> > > 
> > > I spoke too soon. I got a reply to the first email (the one with a
> > > subject of "get bridges" and an empty body) after about 6 minutes. (The
> > > email's Date header was the same second I sent the message, but the
> > > Delivery-date header was 6 minutes later.
> > >          Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:38:53 +0000
> > > Delivery-date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:45:09 +0000
> > 
> > This is pretty weird. I have tested it many times and I always get content in 
> > the body. I just tested it and it looked good here :(
> > 
> > Might it be that the changes we did to the text[0] are breaking your client (it 
> > does now contain some UTF-8 characters)?  Can you try to open the email with a 
> > text editor or another email client? Does it look empty?  Do you mind forwarding 
> > me the email?  
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't clear. The email I *sent* had an empty body. The email I
> *received* from bridges-test had bridges and instructions in the body as
> expected.o

Ok, I'm happy it worked as expected.
Thank you for testing it.

> I tested sending an empty body, and separately an empty subject because,
> as I recall, in the past there was some confusion about whether BridgeDB
> should reply to such messages.

I see the code having something about that. But now bridgedb should always reply 
with obfs4 unless other commands provided, so no valid commands will still work 
to get bridges :)


BTW, bridgedb+rdsys is already in production.

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