[tor-bugs] #9349 [Flashproxy]: flashproxy facilitator: Allow clients to specify transports

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#9349: flashproxy facilitator: Allow clients to specify transports
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     Reporter:  asn         |      Owner:  dcf
         Type:  task        |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal      |  Milestone:
    Component:  Flashproxy  |    Version:
   Resolution:              |   Keywords:
Actual Points:              |  Parent ID:  #7167
       Points:              |
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Comment (by dcf):

 Replying to [comment:12 arlolra]:
 > At https://github.com/arlolra/flashproxy/compare/raw, I modified the
 standalone flashproxy to terminate the websocket connection and make tcp
 connections to generic relays not supporting the websocket pt.
 >
 > This could be useful for testing the proxy transport chain and the
 modified facilitator from #7945.

 Thanks for this. I think what we will want to do is build an abstraction
 layer for sockets, and then adapt both WebSocket and plain TCP to it.

 We're not like to adopt the model where you try to connect to some relay
 and then fall back to another transport if it fails. Instead, in #9349 we
 let the proxies tell the facilitator what transports they support, and the
 facilitator gies them an appropriate relay.

 I think the idea of plain TCP between proxy and client is even more
 interesting than between proxy and relay.

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