[tor-bugs] #10935 [meek]: Make bundles featuring meek

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#10935: Make bundles featuring meek
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     Reporter:  dcf      |      Owner:  dcf
         Type:  project  |     Status:  needs_review
     Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:
    Component:  meek     |    Version:
   Resolution:           |   Keywords:  meek MikePerry201406R
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Comment (by dcf):

 Replying to [comment:28 mcs]:
 > Replying to [comment:25 gk]:
 > > This looks good to me. The only thing I am not sure is wrt the
 location for the headless app and the placement of Docs/meek in the OS X
 case. Let's see what Kathy/Mark are saying. Kathy/Mark: Could you comment
 on those things? Does there something speak against the current idea? If
 so, what would be a better place?
 >
 > I discussed this with Kathy.  It seems a little odd to place an
 application bundle (even a symlink'd one) under TorBrowser/Data.  Maybe
 move it under TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/ ?

  * https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/dcf/tor-browser-
 bundle.git/log/refs/heads/meek-rebase-4.0-alpha1-pre-take3
  * https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/dcf/tor-browser-
 bundle.git/commitdiff/refs/heads/meek-rebase-4.0-alpha1-pre-
 take3?hp=5b4c3fe36ce264f7547d7713073876ecedb51e58
  * https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/dcf/tor-browser-
 bundle.git/commitdiff/refs/heads/meek-rebase-4.0-alpha1-pre-
 take3?hp=refs/heads/meek-rebase-4.0-alpha1-pre-take2

 > Also, maybe it is intentional or maybe not that the bundle does not end
 in .app, but we would have expected to see a name like TorBrowser-meek-
 http-helper.app.  Apparently things work either way though.

 I avoided ending the file name with ".app" to reduce the likelihood that a
 curious user would launch the internal bundle by double-clicking. The
 internal bundle is necessarily configured to bypass the Tor proxy, so it's
 dangerous if it's confused with the actual Tor Browser. The naming trick
 worked when it was under TorBrowser/Data (the app appeared as a normal
 folder), but for some reason it doesn't work under
 TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports :/ When you double-click the icon,
 first you get a dialog offering to import your bookmarks, then you get a
 browser window with the normal Firefox branding. You can't type into it,
 nor does it appear in the dock, probably because of the LSBackgroundOnly
 setting.

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