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Change the representation of domain fronting in HTTP rendezvous.
Formerly, BrokerChannel represented the broker URL and possible domain fronting as bc.url *url.URL bc.Host string That is, bc.url is the URL of the server which we contact directly, and bc.Host is the Host header to use in the request. With no domain fronting, bc.url points directly at the broker itself, and bc.Host is blank. With domain fronting, we do the following reshuffling: if front != "" { bc.Host = bc.url.Host bc.url.Host = front } That is, we alter bc.url to reflect that the server to which we send requests directly is the CDN, not the broker, and store the broker's own URL in the HTTP Host header. The above representation was always confusing to me, because in my mental model, we are always conceptually communicating with the broker; but we may optionally be using a CDN proxy in the middle. The new representation is bc.url *url.URL bc.front string bc.url is the URL of the broker itself, and never changes. bc.front is the optional CDN front domain, and likewise never changes after initialization. When domain fronting is in use, we do the swap in the http.Request struct, not in BrokerChannel itself: if bc.front != "" { request.Host = request.URL.Host request.URL.Host = bc.front } Compare to the representation in meek-client: https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/meek.git/tree/meek-client/meek-client.go?h=v0.35.0#n94 var options struct { URL string Front string } https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/meek.git/tree/meek-client/meek-client.go?h=v0.35.0#n308 if ok { // if front is set info.Host = info.URL.Host info.URL.Host = front }
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