[tor-bugs] #6546 [Tor Client]: Replace check.tp.o with internal mapaddress + JSON/XML object

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#6546: Replace check.tp.o with internal mapaddress + JSON/XML object
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 Reporter:  ioerror      |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor Client   |        Version:                    
 Keywords:               |         Parent:                    
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:                    
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Comment(by sysrqb):

 A couple points: (I'm relatively new so I apologize if any of this has
 been brought up before)

 1) Tor returning a JSON object that contains its current status is a good
 idea. For TorButton/TorBirdy those three attributes may be the the only
 ones that are needed, but this could potentially also be a way to query
 Tor for an up-to-date status and/or statistics (This would obviously be
 secondary to the purpose of the ticket).

 2) People like pretty things, so keeping a status page of some sort is
 probably not a bad idea :)

 2) Going off of weasel's comment, what if every time Tor starts it adds a
 "first-use-only" mapping of a popular website  (www.google.com,
 www.cnn.com, www.bbc.co.uk, etc) chosen from a static list that will
 redefined the address to resolve to the local address - this can be
 handled similar to how Automapping is handled currently. If DNS is being
 routed through Tor then after this address has been requested for the
 first time a flag is toggled to indicate that as such and the mapping is
 removed. If this flag is never flipped then we know Tor isn't being used
 for DNS resolution. This info can also be added to the JSON  response so
 they can handle resolution differently if they want to.

 With this test if anything leaks due to misconfiguration (or whatever
 else) it simply looks like a normal request instead of something to
 *.torproject.org which may peek some interest.

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