#22874: Standalone broker (independent of App Engine)
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Reporter: dcf | Owner:
Type: project | Status: new
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Component: Obfuscation/Snowflake | Version:
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[https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-
transports/snowflake.git/tree/broker?id=bfea72b50e9277be0abae1b696431c28faef681c
Currently] the broker code is implemented only for App Engine; i.e. it
doesn't have a `main` function and relies on being invoked using the App
Engine APIs.
Instead, the broker should run as a standalone HTTPS server somewhere, and
App Engine should only be a dumb request/response forwarder (we can steal
the [https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-
transports/meek.git/tree/appengine?id=451320610020753ccaee2d533972a6ae5a1873c0
forwarder code from meek]). That will make it possible to easily add
domain fronts other than Google (#22782), and any secret data we handle on
the broker won't have to be revealed to Google.
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