[tor-bugs] #33010 [Metrics/Ideas]: Monitor cloudflare captcha rate: do a periodic onionperf-like query to a cloudflare-hosted static site

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#33010: Monitor cloudflare captcha rate: do a periodic onionperf-like query to a
cloudflare-hosted static site
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 Reporter:  arma                       |          Owner:  metrics-team
     Type:  task                       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                     |      Milestone:
Component:  Metrics/Ideas              |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                     |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  network-health gsoc-ideas  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [ticket:33010 arma]:

 [snip]

 > One catch is that Cloudflare currently gives alt-svc headers in response
 to fetches from Tor addresses. So that means we need a web client that can
 follow alt-srv headers -- maybe we need a full Selenium like client?

 The alt-svc is not kicking in with the first load. So, if we use a really
 simple static page (that is with nothing dynamic and no sub resources
 being requested subsequently) we should not hit that complicating factor.

 That said using Tor Browser for the case where we actually want to find
 out the Tor Browser experience seems like a thing we should investigate,
 and be it alone for the reason mentioned in comment:4. There is
 [https://github.com/webfp/tor-browser-selenium tor-browser-selenium] and
 various forks that should do the trick in combination with
 [https://stem.torproject.org/ stem].

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