[tor-commits] [tech-reports/master] Add Zack's code that makes TBB and Selenium play nice together.

[karsten at torproject.org]

commit 6d0b74692a960ae24c988edd9b95643930b349ff
Author: Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing at gmx.net>
Date:   Mon Sep 9 10:40:15 2013 +0200

    Add Zack's code that makes TBB and Selenium play nice together.
    
    https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005390.html
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diff --git a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex b/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
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--- a/2013/torperf2/torperf2.tex
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@@ -217,7 +217,16 @@ them public if needed, and do a trial deployment somewhere.%
 \footnote{\url{https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7516}}
 An experiment making these more realistic measurements should use
 something like Selenium to control an actual Tor Browser to make
-requests.
+requests.%
+\footnote{Related to this, Zack Weinberg has written code that downloads
+the present Tor Browser alpha and Python Selenium client and
+monkey-patches them to play nice together; see
+\url{https://github.com/zackw/tailwagger}.
+This code is very specialized for his requirements right now, but might
+still be of use to us.
+We should look especially at what is done to TBB and python-selenium by
+the patches under pkg/tor-browser-3.0a3 and pkg/python-selenium-2.33.0,
+and the TbbDriver class in client/tbbselenium.py.}
 As a variant, this experiment should be run with other Firefox versions, e.g.
 that one that uses optimistic data.%
 \footnote{\url{https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3875}}