I have recently seen a data race related our way of
mutating the outgoing request to set the host header.
Unfortunately, I've lost track of the race output,
because I rebooted my Linux box before saving it.
Though, after inspecting why and and where we're mutating
outgoing requets, I've found that:
1. we add the host header when logging to have it logged,
which is not a big deal since we already emit the URL
rather than just the URL path when logging a request, and
so we can safely zap this piece of code;
2. as a result, in measurements we may omit the host header
but again this is pretty much obvious from the URL itself
and so it should not be very important (nonetheless,
avoid surprises and keep the existing behavior);
3. when the User-Agent header is not set, we default to
a `miniooni/0.1.0-dev` user agent, which is probably not
very useful anyway, so we can actually remove it.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1733 (this diff
has been extracted from https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/506).
We are not using them anymore. The only nettest still using the
legacy netx implementation is tor, for which setting these fields
is useless, because it performs each measurement into a separate
goroutine. Hence, let us start removing this part of the legacy
netx codebase, which is hampering progress in other areas.
Occurred to me while doing testing for the recent changes in
error mapping (https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1505).
This is how I did it:
1. `git clone https://github.com/ooni/probe-engine internal/engine`
2. ```
(cd internal/engine && git describe --tags)
v0.23.0
```
3. `nvim go.mod` (merging `go.mod` with `internal/engine/go.mod`
4. `rm -rf internal/.git internal/engine/go.{mod,sum}`
5. `git add internal/engine`
6. `find . -type f -name \*.go -exec sed -i 's@/ooni/probe-engine@/ooni/probe-cli/v3/internal/engine@g' {} \;`
7. `go build ./...` (passes)
8. `go test -race ./...` (temporary failure on RiseupVPN)
9. `go mod tidy`
10. this commit message
Once this piece of work is done, we can build a new version of `ooniprobe` that
is using `internal/engine` directly. We need to do more work to ensure all the
other functionality in `probe-engine` (e.g. making mobile packages) are still WAI.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1335
