[tor-bugs] #8860 [Flashproxy]: Registration over App Engine

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#8860: Registration over App Engine
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 Reporter:  dcf         |          Owner:  dcf         
     Type:  project     |         Status:  needs_review
 Priority:  major       |      Milestone:              
Component:  Flashproxy  |        Version:              
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Comment(by arlolra):

 Replying to [comment:7 asn]:
 > Oh there is codez here. Nice!

 Thanks for the comments.

 >
 > Some comments on the code:
 > - You can just connect to 'https://www.google.com' instead of
 'https://www.google.com/ip' and
 `urlparse.urljoin("https://www.google.com/reg/", reg)`.

 Are you sure? How else would I specify the request path?

 >
 > - Exception handling in `get_external_ip()` is kind of crude. Also, its
 callers are not prepared for it returning None.

 I updated my branch here:
 https://github.com/arlolra/flashproxy/compare/master...appspot
 to return an empty string, instead of `None`.

 >
 > - Can we use flashproxy's normal `parse_addr_spec()`?

 Not sure what you mean. Most of `flashproxy-reg-appspot` is a copy of what
 was in `flashproxy-reg-url`.

 >
 > BTW, while this script will work great for now, an adversary might be
 able to block it by detecting the SSL handshake of urllib2, in the same
 way as they currently do for Tor. Maybe the next step is to build a
 Firefox addon that does the registration through https://google.com?

 Interesting idea.

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