[tor-dev] Stem ORPort protocol support

[teor]

> On 8 Feb 2018, at 07:23, Damian Johnson <atagar at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi all. Over the last few months Tim and I have been collaborating on
> Python support for the ORPort protocol. With it you can download
> descriptors without a DirPort, and possibly fancier things in the
> future like full circuit construction.

Stem's ORPort support is great news!

We have been looking at alternate Tor implementations that are
easier to hack for testing:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17270

> Tim put together a wonderful proof of concept called Endosome...
> 
>  https://github.com/teor2345/endosome
> 
> ... and I just finished integrating it into Stem...
> 
>  https://gitweb.torproject.org/stem.git/tree/stem/client/__init__.py

I have added both Endosome and Stem to the Tor implementations wiki:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ListOfTorImplementations

Looking forward to trying out the ORPort features when the descriptor
download API is stable. It will be great to be able to check Fallback
Directory Mirror ORPorts:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19129

T

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