[Tim Retout] > Hi Petter, Hi Tim. Very glad to see you are still working on the tor transport for apt. :)
> Do you think part of this might need to be fixed at the apt level? > Downloads could fail with plain HTTP too. How much is within scope for > the transport to retry automatically? In my experience, HTTP rarely have transient failures like the tor transport do. > The most common failures I've seen are where Tor has a "hiccup" of > some sort, but the fix there required restarting tor iirc, which I'd > rather apt was not able to do. In fact, since people are requesting to > run Tor on other machines, that would not be possible. The problems I've experienced was solved by running 'apt-get upgrade' again, so I suspect a single retry on the tor level would go a long way in solving it. I've never needed to restart tor. > Maybe there are particular temporary failures that are tor-specific > (censorship?) and could be retried - and do what, retry three times? Three times would be splendid. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
