[tor-dev] Preliminary Debian packages for meek

[David Fifield]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 12:53:52AM +0100, Ximin Luo wrote:
> Source package: https://mentors.debian.net/package/meek
> Binary packages: https://people.torproject.org/~infinity0/bin/
> 
> From the binaries, one should install both meek-client and xul-ext-meek-http-helper; the latter depends on xfvb and xauth.
> 
> meek-client has been modified slightly to run meek-http-helper in a headless firefox using Xfvb(1), so that it works even when run as a system service. Example torrc:
> 
> ~~~~
> UseBridges 1
> Bridge meek 0.0.2.0:1 url=https://meek-reflect.appspot.com/ front=www.google.com
> ClientTransportPlugin meek exec /usr/bin/meek-client-wrapper --log /var/log/tor/meek-client-wrapper.log --helper /usr/bin/meek-browser-helper -- /usr/bin/meek-client --log /var/log/tor/meek-client.log
> ~~~~

This is great. Thanks a log. The xfvb idea is really clever.

Someone asked this question on Tor Stack Exchange:
https://tor.stackexchange.com/questions/3620/how-to-install-tor-with-meek-support-on-ubuntu-debian
Seems like this package will soon be the answer?

I'll suggest the meek-client-wrapper program from #12716 to the
maintainer of the FreeBSD port.

David Fifield