30 Jun
2019
30 Jun
'19
12:30 p.m.
I'll add that a cypherpunk has been testing a very simple patch implementing this behavior for a few months and not seen adverse effects: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/5915/tor-optimist... (Although I propose to not include the error page component.)
-tom
On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 00:50, Tom Ritter tom@ritter.vg wrote:
The attached is a draft proposal for allowing tor to lie to an application about the SOCKS connection enabling it to send data optimistically.
It's going to need some fleshing out in ways I am not familiar with, but I wanted to get something out to start as we think that this is probably the best path forward for bringing back Tor Browser's optimistic SOCKS behavior.
-tom