[tor-bugs] #9022 [Pluggable transport]: Create an XMPP pluggable transport

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#9022: Create an XMPP pluggable transport
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 Reporter:  asn                  |          Owner:  feynman 
     Type:  task                 |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:          
Component:  Pluggable transport  |        Version:          
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Comment(by feynman):

 I am definitely getting closer. I found that gtalk drops IQs when you send
 too many to a given person (or possibly group of people) too  quickly. I
 added code that saves data received from a socket into a buffer and sends
 the data out in large chunks every second. This gave me much better
 results, but google still seems to start dropping IQs somewhere around 1.5
 minutes into a video at 240p. The situation only gets worse with higher
 quality videos. This might be because the bandwidth of gtalk for xmpp
 messages is inherently slower than the rate at which youtube sends data
 when streaming videos higher than 240p.

 I tried using zlib to compress the data before base 64 encoding it and
 sending it over the chatline to see if my messages were too long, but this
 did not seem to help.

 More testing is necessary.

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