Port SWF flash proxy to JavaScript
It's impolite to ask volunteers to run Adobe Flash; also it complicates development, deployment, and testing. It ought to be possible to do everything the Flash badge does in JavaScript (with the exception of the deprecated RTMFP transport).
flash.net.URLLoader becomes XMLHttpRequest. flash.net.Socket becomes WebSocket. Rather than having to run a crossdomain policy server, endpoints will have to understand the WebSocket header. On the Tor relay side, we may run a WebSocket proxy such as https://github.com/kanaka/websockify. On the client side, it should be built into the connector, just as the connector now has a crossdomain server.
This development is happening in https://gitweb.torproject.org/flashproxy.git/shortlog/refs/heads/js.
- WebSocket network protocol: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455.
- WebSocket programmer API: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/.
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