[tor-bugs] #6283 [Onionoo]: Enhancement suggestions

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#6283: Enhancement suggestions
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 Reporter:  Aymeric  |          Owner:     
     Type:  defect   |         Status:  new
 Priority:  minor    |      Milestone:     
Component:  Onionoo  |        Version:     
 Keywords:           |         Parent:     
   Points:           |   Actualpoints:     
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Changes (by karsten):

  * priority:  normal => minor


Comment:

 Replying to [ticket:6283 Aymeric]:
 > Is it on purpose that onionoo returns all the information except onion
 and signing keys ?

 Onionoo aims to provide any information that applications like Atlas would
 want to provide to users.  We left out cryptographic keys, because they're
 hardly useful for humans.  Also, they eat up a lot of space.  Is there a
 good reason to add cryptographic keys?

 > Maybe the search could be extended to other fields, like the Tor version
 : xxxx?search=0.2.3

 That would rather be "xxxx?version=0.2.3", but yes, that would be
 possible.  It's not implemented in Onionoo, because no application uses
 it, not because it wouldn't be useful.  If Atlas or some other application
 would use it, we can add that parameter.  (I'm trying not to add too many
 features because of the planned Python port of Onionoo, though.)

 > Probably it has alreday been thought and there is a goog reason for not
 doing it, but for example it could be extended to almost all the fields
 that you provide in the detailed output (whether explicitely
 ?search=country_name:germany, or implicitely) :
 > {"nickname":"gabelmoo",
 >
 //"fingerprint":"F2044413DAC2E02E3D6BCF4735A19BCA1DE97281",
 >               //"or_addresses":["212.112.245.170:443"],
 >               //"dir_address":"212.112.245.170:80",
 >               //"running":true,
 >
 //"flags":["Authority","HSDir","Named","Running","Stable","V2Dir","Valid"],
 >               //"country":"de",
 >               //"latitude":49.447800,
 >               //"longitude":11.068298,
 >               //"country_name":"Germany",
 >               //"region_name":"Bayern",
 >               //"city_name":"N\u00FCrnberg",
 >               //"as_number":"AS24900",
 >               //"as_name":"IPX Server GmbH",
 >               //"consensus_weight":20,
 >               //"host_name":"tor-dirauth.sebastianhahn.net",
 >               //"last_restarted":"2012-04-17 17:18:12",
 >               //"advertised_bandwidth":20480,
 >               //"exit_policy":[
 >               //  "reject *:*"
 >               //],
 >               //"contact":"4096R\/C5AA446D Sebastian Hahn
 <tor at sebastianhahn.net>",
 >               //"platform":"Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha-dev (git-
 937d7e82012f62b8) on Linux x86_64"

 The same applies here as for the version above.

 Leaving this ticket open, but changing priority to minor.  If there are
 plans to use the new features in Atlas or another Onionoo client, I'll
 extend Onionoo.  Does that make sense?

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