fix(geolocate): no proxy when discovering our IP address (#251)

* fix(geolocate): no proxy when discovering our IP address

The use case of --proxy is that you cannot contact the OONI
backend otherwise. It is wrong, though, using the proxy when
discovering our IP address. The measurement won't use the
proxy anyway. Therefore, we need to use the IP address that
is performing the measurement. Not the one of the proxy.

What's more, stun is not using a proxy. Therefore, it does
not make much sense that http IP resolvers use a proxy. This
leads to inconsistencies. So, here's anothe reason why this
patch is a good thing (TM).

Finally, because knowing the IP address enables us to sanitize
the data, it's important we discover the correct IP.

Now, up until this point, the `--proxy` option has mostly
been a developers toy. But, users have asked us to have the
possibility of configuring a proxy.

This explains why I have been looking into making `--proxy`
right for a couple of hours now.

See https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1382

* fix(session): properly configure the IP lookupper
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@ -491,8 +491,8 @@ func (s *Session) LookupLocationContext(ctx context.Context) (*geolocate.Results
// when we are using a proxy because that might leak information.
task := geolocate.Must(geolocate.NewTask(geolocate.Config{
EnableResolverLookup: s.proxyURL == nil,
HTTPClient: s.DefaultHTTPClient(),
Logger: s.Logger(),
Resolver: s.resolver,
ResourcesManager: s,
UserAgent: s.UserAgent(),
}))