[tor-bugs] #3875 [TorBrowserButton]: TBB's Firefox should use optimistic data socks handshake variant

Tue Aug 30 23:16:07 UTC 2011

#3875: TBB's Firefox should use optimistic data socks handshake variant
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 Reporter:  arma              |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement       |         Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:           
Component:  TorBrowserButton  |        Version:           
 Keywords:                    |         Parent:           
   Points:                    |   Actualpoints:           
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 Tor Proposal 181 lets the Tor client save a round-trip if the application
 speaks socks in a special way. In short, the application needs to send its
 data before hearing that the socks connection was successful. It's
 supported as of Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha.

 Ian originally had suggested to hack polipo to use a modified socks
 handshake. With polipo out of the picture for TBB, we should make Firefox
 itself do it.

 Is this something Torbutton should (could) do, or should we patch the
 Firefox we include in TBB?

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