[tor-dev] bananaphone obfsproxy module

[David Stainton]

yeah that's perfect. I'll do that.

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:35 AM, George Kadianakis <desnacked at riseup.net> wrote:
>>>> It wouldn't surprise me if the obfsproxy API is suboptimal or broken
>>>> in some ways. If you find a problem, please let me know.
>>
>> I need a way for the BananaphoneTransport to build the markov model before
>> the initial client connect... but right now it looks like __init__ is
>> called upon connect.
>>
>> validate_external_mode_cli runs during setup before the connect...
>> should I use that to set a BananaphoneTransport class variable to the
>> markov model?
>>
>
> Hm, if I understand correctly, you want to run some setup routine when
> obfsproxy loads, and before the first connections happen.
>
> You are right that '__init__' is called upon connect. We should document
> this in its non-existent function docs.
>
> Doing it in validate_external_mode_cli is an option, but I think even
> clearer would be defining a new class method 'set_up' (or something) that
> gets called on obfsproxy startup for each module. It should be a NOP for
> most transports, but you can override it to build your markov model.
>
> Does this make sense?
>