Re: [Tails-dev] Testing Tor Monitor

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Author: sajolida
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New-Topics: [Tails-dev] Tor Monitor: don't show duplicate streams with the same destination in the same circuit
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Testing Tor Monitor
Alan:
> intrigeri <intrigeri@???> wrote:
>> sajolida wrote (27 Aug 2015 16:48:14 GMT) :
>>> C. Duplicate information
>>
>>> In the list of circuits I sometimes see duplicated lines.
>>
>> Technical nitpicking: these are streams, not circuits :)
>>
>>> For example when connecting to heavy websites like YouTube.
>>> See duplicates.png in attachment. Why not deduplicate these lines?
>>
>> I'm not sure what's the value of the "there are multiple streams to
>> this IP:PORT going on that circuit" information. At first glance,
>> I would say let's deduplicate, but perhaps I'm missing a use case
>> or three?
>>
> If I display duplicates, either I have a bug or there are multiple
> streams to this IP:port in that circuit... I can deduplicate them if
> requested but I fail to see the interest to complexify the
> code to simplify the reality.


The interest is to have a more compact view displayed to the user and
reduce noise. Did you see my screenshot? To me it looks pretty awful. I
fail to see the interest in complexifying so much the interface to
simplify a bit the code :)