[guardian-dev] how to do clean tor integration in Orfox

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Nathan of Guardian:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015, at 02:28 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> I don't think we need major UI work.  Really just changing that proxy
>> page I
>> think could cover what we need.  That said, I disagree that proxy failure
>> is a
>> rare situation.  It happens to me a lot on my devices.  I think that
>> Orbot
>> frequently fails after sleep then wakeup.  And I have to manually restart
>> Orbot to get it working again. But of course, it would be better to get
>> Orbot
>> solidly reliable.
> 
> That failure/bug is something I have noticed to since the latest
> release. It definitely wasn't as common as before. I think something
> changed in our code or in Android that is causing it.
> 
> In general, Orbot should run in the background quietly, doing it's
> thing. That said, I am super excited about small chnages to Orfox to
> better handle the fact that Orbot is a separate app/service that can
> fail from time to time.

I've had similar failures for a long while on my main device, in varying
degrees.  Before, it was more intermittent and was hard to predict when it
would fail.  Now it seems to fail after almost every sleep.  I haven't had a
chance to debug it.

.hc

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