[Twisted-Python] tor hidden service endpoint parser returns a deferred

[meejah]

David Stainton <dstainton415 at gmail.com> writes:

> Ah ha! Of course it is so obvious now that you point it out to me.
> The onion endpoint parser can do this setup work in it's  `listen`
> method which returns a `Deferred`.
> Thanks for your observation/advice!

Cool! Thanks for doing this. Can I pull it into txtorcon when it's
finished?

Also (more from the Tor end), someone specifying a service will also
want to specify the keys for that service. Following the 'ssl' stuff, I
guess something like "onion:80:hiddenServiceDir=/dev/shm/foo" might be
appropriate? Or perhaps even a way to specify the private key directly?

...and to bikeshed a bit, what about "anontcp:" as a prefix? Then for
client-side strings, it could look similar
(e.g. "anontcp:encrypted.google.com:443") which could in worst-case
launch a new tor instance, wait for it to bootstrap etc in
connect(). Perhaps "looking similar" is a non-feature, though :)
Another point for this is that "someday" tor will have UDP support...

thanks,
meejah