[tor-bugs] #3204 [Pluggable transport]: The cli interface of obfsproxy is terrible and makes children cry.

Tue May 17 02:03:27 UTC 2011

#3204: The cli interface of obfsproxy is terrible and makes children cry.
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 Reporter:  asn                  |          Owner:  asn
     Type:  defect               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:     
Component:  Pluggable transport  |        Version:     
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 The cli interface of obfsproxy is *awful*.

 I asked nickm one day if he knows of any standards for interfaces, and he
 said "You mean CLI or are you thinking of a GUI?" and I replied "No, just
 CLI." and then I never got an answer.

 I'm pretty sure there are no standards for CLIs, except from the POSIX
 conventions for command-line options, but really I don't know much about
 usability.

 This trac ticket is to build a nice CLI for obfsproxy.

 I started building a getopt() one, but then I remembered that obfsproxy
 should be running in Windows as well and I got terribly sad.

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