[tor-bugs] #20030 [Obfuscation/meek]: meek-http-helper doesn't shutdown cleanly in 6.5a1

Mon Sep 26 01:05:21 UTC 2016

#20030: meek-http-helper doesn't shutdown cleanly in 6.5a1
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 Reporter:  arlolra           |          Owner:  dcf
     Type:  defect            |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium            |      Milestone:
Component:  Obfuscation/meek  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal            |     Resolution:
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Comment (by dcf):

 I've isolated the problem to the meek-client-torbrowser file. If you take
 a fresh installation of 6.0a5 (which does not have this bug), and copy
 Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/meek-client-torbrowser from
 6.5a1, then the bug occurs.

 The meek-client-torbrowser in 6.0a5 and 6.5a1 are built from slightly
 different sources: [https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-
 transports/meek.git/diff/?id=0.22-18371-3&id2=0.22-18371-2 0.22-18371-2
 versus 0.22-18371-3]. That, however, doesn't seem to be the cause of the
 problem.

 The actual problem seems to be changed Go version,
 [https://gitweb.torproject.org/builders/tor-browser-
 bundle.git/commit/?id=778fd2d07bc40c0458ad7a477b6079a99305071d from 1.4.2
 to 1.6.2]. If I recompile meek-client-torbrowser 0.22-18371-3 with go1.3.3
 from Debian stable, then the error does not occur. If I compile it with
 go1.7.1 from Debian testing, the error does occur.

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