[tor-bugs] #7877 [Metrics Website]: Web interface for looking up bridge status?

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#7877: Web interface for looking up bridge status?
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 Reporter:  arma             |          Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |      Milestone:     
Component:  Metrics Website  |        Version:     
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 We keep and publish scrubbed bridge descriptors -- hashing the IP address,
 fingerprint, etc -- as well as bridge pool assignments:
 https://metrics.torproject.org/data.html#bridgedesc
 https://metrics.torproject.org/formats.html#bridgepool

 The process of looking up whether your bridge is working means you need to
 do a sha1 of your fingerprint. That means most bridge operators won't do
 it.

 To make it easier, we should offer a web interface where you tell it your
 fingerprint, and it tells you the corresponding bridge descriptor
 (including extrainfo details).

 (In my ideal world, users could just query Tonga directly, which would
 mean much more up-to-date answers here. But Tonga quite rightly doesn't
 answer bridge questions over its unencrypted dirport, and browsers quite
 rightly don't know how to encapsulate their http queries in the Tor
 protocol. So I guess that direction is a dead-end.)

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