[tor-bugs] #5272 [Ooni]: BridgeT: Check if bridges are public relays

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#5272: BridgeT: Check if bridges are public relays
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    Reporter:  gsathya      |       Owner:  hellais 
        Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened
    Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:          
   Component:  Ooni         |     Version:          
  Resolution:               |    Keywords:          
      Parent:               |      Points:          
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Changes (by hellais):

  * type:  defect => enhancement


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:5 karsten]:
 > Wait, you're transmitting all bridge fingerprints via HTTP GET requests
 to my personal VM.  Please don't do that.
 >
 > A better approach would be to download the list of
 [http://onionoo.torproject.org/summary/relays currently running relays]
 when BridgeT starts and compare locally.  If you want, you can update that
 list every, say, 5--15 minutes, though not for every bridge scan.
 >
 > Also note the onionoo.torproject.org URL in that link.  Please put that
 in instead of the IP address, so that we can move the service in the
 future without breaking BridgeT.


 This sounds reasonable. For the time being I have commented out in BridgeT
 the lines that do the check for bridge publicness in commit
 bd383663eff8703e0a78704703dbfba4dba46992.

 If we want this feature it should be integrated as karsten suggested.

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