[tor-bugs] #5382 [- Select a component]: Port SWF flash proxy to JavaScript

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#5382: Port SWF flash proxy to JavaScript
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 Reporter:  dcf                   |          Owner:  dcf
     Type:  task                  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |      Milestone:     
Component:  - Select a component  |        Version:     
 Keywords:  flashproxy            |         Parent:     
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 It's impolite to ask volunteers to run Adobe Flash; also it complicates
 development, deployment, and testing. It ought to be possible to do
 everything the Flash badge does in JavaScript (with the exception of the
 deprecated RTMFP transport).

 {{{flash.net.URLLoader}}} becomes {{{XMLHttpRequest}}}.
 {{{flash.net.Socket}}} becomes {{{WebSocket}}}. Rather than having to run
 a crossdomain policy server, endpoints will have to understand the
 WebSocket header. On the Tor relay side, we may run a WebSocket proxy such
 as https://github.com/kanaka/websockify. On the client side, it should be
 built into the connector, just as the connector now has a crossdomain
 server.

 This development is happening in
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/flashproxy.git/shortlog/refs/heads/js.

 * WebSocket network protocol: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455.
 * WebSocket programmer API: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/.

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