[tor-bugs] #9022 [Pluggable transport]: Create an XMPP pluggable transport

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#9022: Create an XMPP pluggable transport
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 Reporter:  asn                  |          Owner:  feynman 
     Type:  task                 |         Status:  accepted
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:          
Component:  Pluggable transport  |        Version:          
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Comment(by asn):

 Hm,
 https://github.com/aeftimia/hexchat/commit/bff1134bc9d17e8e0532bcc99d3a77b975ba1946
 is a bit weird. It seems like your non-blocking `connect()` never
 succeeded (which makes sense, since you never connect to a remote host
 instantly) and you turned it into a blocking `connect()`.

 Problem with a blocking `connect()` is that hexchat will block till it
 connects. Imagine this on the server-side, where the hexchat bot gets 100
 ''connect me!'' messages a second, and it blocks for every connect.

 You will probably need to introduce some kind of asynchronous networking
 there. You want to do a non-blocking `connect()` and run
 `add_client_socket()` only when it's completed. Are you familiar with any
 asynchronous Python networking libraries (like asyncore or twisted or
 something)?

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