[tor-bugs] #18113 [Applications/Tor Launcher]: Dynamically allocate clients to default Tor Browser bridges of a certain type

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#18113: Dynamically allocate clients to default Tor Browser bridges of a certain
type
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 Reporter:  isis                               |          Owner:  brade
     Type:  enhancement                        |         Status:
 Priority:  Medium                             |  needs_revision
Component:  Applications/Tor Launcher          |      Milestone:
 Severity:  Normal                             |        Version:
 Keywords:  tbb-bridges, TorBrowserTeam201604  |     Resolution:
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Comment (by isis):

 Replying to [comment:19 arma]:
 > (Except the bandwidth weighting stuff -- either Tor chooses from all of
 them equally because it doesn't have any descriptors at the time it
 chooses which one will go into the state file first, or it does have the
 descriptors so it weights by the self-advertised bandwidths in the
 descriptors. I'd have to check, but my guess would be the former. Still, I
 think that is better solved inside Tor, where Tor Browser's job would be
 to add a weight to the bridge line.)

 So you mean we would add a parameter to bridge lines that specifies
 weight? Or another optional line underneath it like

 {{{
 Bridge 1.2.3.4:5555 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567
 BridgeWeight 8
 Bridge 5.6.7.8:4545 f0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef0123456
 BridgeWeight 2
 }}}

 Changing the bridge lines once we're taking PTs into account starts to get
 super ugly… I think if we're going this route we'd need to add something
 like the BridgeWeight lines.

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