[tor-bugs] #4496 [Tor Support]: Create an IM bot that can send out software and documentation
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#4496: Create an IM bot that can send out software and documentation
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Reporter: runa | Owner: runa
Type: task | Status: needs_information
Priority: normal | Milestone: Sponsor E: March 15, 2012
Component: Tor Support | Version:
Keywords: | Parent:
Points: | Actualpoints:
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Comment(by rransom):
Replying to [comment:6 rransom]:
> How can the XMPP bot transfer files to a user?
Runa said that an XMPP bot would likely use the protocol specified in
[http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0096.html]. That spec mentions ‘in-band
bytestreams’, which would send the file over the IM protocol, so the
connection shouldn't be much easier to block than the IM connection
itself. (Assuming, of course, that users' XMPP clients don't try ‘SOCKS5
bytestreams’ first, get blocked, and give up on the file transfer
entirely.)
But XMPP servers usually rate-limit client connections, so our bot could
get verrryyy ssslllooowww if people actually use it.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/4496#comment:7>
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