In https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/832's initial diff, I
mentioned it would be cool to flatten oohelperd's hier.
I'm doing this now, and just for the master branch.
This diff is mostly a mechanical refactoring with very light
and apparently rather safe manual changes.
This diff modifies the implementation of oohelperd in the master branch
to always use throw-away HTTPClient, Dialer, and Resolver.
The rationale of this change is to ensure we're not hitting limits of the
HTTPClient regarding the max number of connections per host.
This issue is described at https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2182.
While there, it feels more correct to use throw-away Dialer and Resolver.
We have a different patch for the release/3.15 branch because of
netx-related refactorings: https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/832.
Reducing the errors is not done in a perfect way.
We have documented the most striking differences inside
https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1707#issuecomment-942283746 and
some attempts to improve the situation further inside
https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1707#issuecomment-942341255.
A better strategy for the future would be to introduce more
specific timeout errors, such as dns_timeout_error, etc.
More testing may be needed to further validate and compare the
old and the new TH, but this requires Jafar improvements to
more precisely simulate more complex censorship.
