[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 asn):

 Replying to [comment:54 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:
 >

 Nice! Do you see a big difference (speed-wise) from normal Tor browsing?

 > 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).

 Yeah. Are you sure you want to take the whitelist approach? Having the
 server forward all traffic to a single address might be more convenient.

 Specifically, we will need hexchat to have a command-line interface
 similar to the one described in comment:18, if we want to deploy this
 without the managed-proxy interface.

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