[tor-bugs] #30006 [Applications/Quality Assurance and Testing]: Monitor "aliveness" of default bridges in Tor Browser

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#30006: Monitor "aliveness" of default bridges in Tor Browser
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 Reporter:  phw                                  |          Owner:  phw
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  assigned
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Quality Assurance and   |        Version:
  Testing                                        |
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  default bridge                       |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:3 anarcat]:
 > the more i look at the list of bridges, the less happy i am. :) i was
 able to extract a list of host:port things with the atrocious:
 >
 > {{{
 > curl -sSL 'https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-
 build.git/plain/projects/tor-browser/Bundle-
 Data/PTConfigs/bridge_prefs.js' | sed -n '/default_bridge\.obfs/{s/.*obfs.
 //;s/ .*$//;p}'
 > }}}
 >
 > ... but that's pretty nasty. ideally, we'd have a plain-text file
 listing each host, one per line, without anything else. then we could do a
 stronger regex that would sanitize the output for inclusion in the
 prometheus server. is there another, simpler data format, canonical source
 for this?

 I guess .csv would work for you? See over at #29275 the OONI folks have
 such a thing it seems (even though it might be outdated):
 https://github.com/citizenlab/test-
 lists/blob/master/lists/services/tor/bridges.csv.

 So, I'd suggest to make sure that one is always kept up-to-date (not sure
 how the .csv file is generated on the OONI side, but hopefully in a
 scriptable way) and then both OONI and the solution for this bug could use
 that one as canonical source.

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