[tor-bugs] #7153 [Pluggable transport]: Don't require pluggable transport proxies to be SOCKS proxies

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#7153: Don't require pluggable transport proxies to be SOCKS proxies
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 Reporter:  karsten              |          Owner:  asn
     Type:  project              |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:     
Component:  Pluggable transport  |        Version:     
 Keywords:  SponsorZ             |         Parent:     
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Comment(by arma):

 Rephrased yet again, in case the above is ambiguous:

 One of the issues is that Stegotorus expects a one-to-many interface ("for
 this tor connection, please contact the following 10 stegotorus
 listeners"), whereas our API was more designed for a one-to-one interface
 ("here's your obfsproxy server address; I'll tell it to you using the
 socks handshake").

 Is "ignore the address in the socks handshake, and cram all the actual
 addresses into the socks username/password" really the best hack we can
 do?

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