[tor-bugs] #7952 [Tor]: Control port method to get the exit policy

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#7952: Control port method to get the exit policy
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 Reporter:  atagar       |          Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement  |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |      Milestone:     
Component:  Tor          |        Version:     
 Keywords:               |         Parent:     
   Points:               |   Actualpoints:     
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 Presently controllers can GETCONF the ExitPolicy, but not get the actual
 exit policy we're running with. It would be nice if it was exposed via the
 control port.

 Here's what I ended up writing in stem to get around this...

 https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commitdiff/716f8a6

 {{{
 19:23 < armadev> atagar: re f0ae1eaee, where were you seeing exit policies
 with redundant lines?
                  tor tries to get rid of redundant lines too. i wonder if
 it doesn't do it well
                  enough, or doesn't do it pervasively enough?
 19:24 < armadev> atagar: ...perhaps tor doesn't export its exit policy to
 the control port at all
 19:43 < atagar> armadev: I don't think that it does, so I wrote a method
 for getting it...
 19:43 < atagar>
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/commitdiff/716f8a693e9b814da5e2c9df551dbe6768f4f324
 19:43 < atagar> It would be nicer to fetch via the control port though. :)
 19:43 < armadev> for these cases, it would be great if you opened a tor
 ticket to say what you want
                  exported
 19:44 < atagar> ok, will do
 19:44 < armadev> i guess there should be a balance between how much work
 tor does, and how much
                  work the controller does
 19:44 < armadev> but in general, if the argument can go "each controller
 would have to implement
                  this thing itself, which is best done in tor", then it
 should go into tor
 }}}

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