[tor-bugs] #6798 [Tor bundles/installation]: Create Vidalia Obfsproxy Bridge Bundle containing Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha

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#6798: Create Vidalia Obfsproxy Bridge Bundle containing Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha
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 Reporter:  karsten                   |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  project                   |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:       
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:       
 Keywords:  SponsorG20120930          |         Parent:       
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Changes (by erinn):

 * cc: chiiph (added)


Comment:

 I've made a preliminary bundle which almost works. It's here:

 https://people.torproject.org/~erinn/qa/alpha/vidalia-obfsproxy-bridge-
 bundle-0.2.4.2-alpha-0.3.3-alpha.exe

 a53967399d042a688466041875638bc89addf738c47b03b7432dc94446ec39f9  vidalia-
 obfsproxy-bridge-bundle-0.2.4.2-alpha-0.3.3-alpha.exe

 The problem I'm having with it is that Vidalia claims it can't start Tor,
 but if you look at the message log Tor claims to have bootstrapped 100%.
 Since Vidalia thinks it never initiates Tor, it doesn't seem to actually
 pay attention to its vidalia.conf settings (I think? still unclear on how
 Vidalia and Tor work together on Windows). So if you stop Tor, then go
 into settings, then set it as a bridge and start it again, it will
 actually start as a bridge... except over here, in the main Vidalia
 window, it only claims it connected to the Tor network successfully about
 50% of the time.

 I'm not really sure what's going on so I invite others to look at it and
 see if they understand. Adding Tomás to Cc for obvious reasons. For any
 Windows people, the .nsi file I used is here:
 https://people.torproject.org/~erinn/qa/alpha/vidalia-alpha-bridge-obfs-
 bundle.nsi

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