This way we know that after enable-tor, the tor hidden service is fully
published and working, and so there should be no problems with it at
pairing time.
It has to start up its own temporary listener on the hidden service. It
would be nice to have it start the remotedaemon running, so that extra
step is not needed afterwards. But, there may already be a remotedaemon
running, in communication with the assistant and we don't want to start
another one. I thought about trying to HUP any running remotedaemon, but
Windows does not make it easy to do that. In any case, having the user
start the remotedaemon themselves lets them know it needs to be running
to serve the hidden service.
This commit was sponsored by Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on Patreon.
weasel explained that apparmor limits on what files tor can read do not
apply to sockets (because they're not files). And apparently the
problems I was seeing with hidden services not being accessible had to
do with onion address propigation and not the location of the socket
file.
remotedaemon looks up the HiddenServicePort in torrc, so if it was
previously configured with the socket in /etc, that will still work.
This commit was sponsored by Denis Dzyubenko on Patreon.
This interacts with it using stdio, which is surprisingly hard.
sendFile does not currently work, due to
https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/108
Parsing the output to find the magic code is done as robustly as
possible, and should continue to work unless wormhole radically changes
the format of its codes. Presumably it will never output something that
looks like a wormhole code before the actual wormhole code; that would
also break this. It would be better if there was a way to make
wormhole not mix the code with other output, as requested in
https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/104
Only exchange of files/directories is supported. To exchange messages,
https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole/issues/99 would need to be resolved.
I don't need message exchange however.
This reverts commit 3037feb1bf.
On second thought, this was an overcomplication of what should be the
lowest-level primitive. Let's build bi-directional links at the pairing
level with eg magic wormhole.
