[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 just tried hexchat with tor and I can safely report success in getting
 basic webpages to load (very slowly), and even watching a video (with a
 lot of buffering). I am using the following configuration:

 laptop browser=>laptop hexchat=>chat server=>desktop hexchat=>desktop
 tor=>desktop hexchat=>chat server=>laptop hexchat=>bridge

 ...and I have the wireshark logs to prove it.

 Keep in mind that this test should be about twice as slow as a normal
 hexchat connection since I am crossing the chat server twice as many times
 as I would in a normal pluggable transport connection.

 I am also using three gmail accounts per computer. Perhaps a real proxy
 server would/should use even more.

 I also have some basic error handling if one computer is disconnected from
 one or more of its accounts.

 I would appear that the only thing left to do is to get this to work with
 GTalk so that anyone can initiate a connect to anyone--regardless of
 whether the client is on the server's contact list. That, and to limit the
 ip:ports a server can connect to with a whitelist (but the latter should
 be quite easy).

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