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OONIPROBE-AGENT(1) OONI: Open Observatory of Network Interference OONIPROBE-AGENT(1)

NAME

ooniprobe-agent - an internet censorship measurement tool, system daemon.

SYNOPSIS

ooniprobe-agent start | stop | run | status

DESCRIPTION

ooniprobe-agent, is a system daemon responsible for automatically running OONI measurements and exposing a web user interface. The web user interface is accessible by default on http://127.0.0.1:8842/

OPTIONS

--help
Display help and exit.
--version
Display the ooniprobe version and exit.

COMMANDS

start Start the ooniprobe-agent in the background

stop Stop the ooniprobe-agent

status Show status of the ooniprobe-agent

run Run the ooniprobe-agent in the foreground

OONIPROBE

Read this before running ooniprobe!

Running ooniprobe is a potentially risky activity. This greatly depends on the jurisdiction in which you are in and which test you are running. It is technically possible for a person observing your internet connection to be aware of the fact that you are running ooniprobe. This means that if running network measurement tests is something considered to be illegal in your country then you could be spotted.

Furthermore, ooniprobe takes no precautions to protect the install target machine from forensics analysis. If the fact that you have installed or used ooni probe is a liability for you, please be aware of this risk.

What is this?

ooniprobe is the command line tool that volunteers and researches interested in contributing data to the project should be running.

If you are interested in using ooniprobe from a graphical user interface refer to ooniprobe-agent and see how to run that.

ooniprobe allows the user to select what test should be run and what backend should be used for storing the test report and/or assisting them in the running of the test.

ooniprobe tests are divided into two categories: Traffic Manipulation and Content Blocking.

Traffic Manipulation tests aim to detect the presence of some sort of tampering with the internet traffic between the probe and a remote test helper backend. As such they usually require the selection of a oonib backend component for running the test.

Content Blocking are aimed at enumerating the kind of content that is blocked from the probes network point of view. As such they usually require to have specified an input list for running the test.

EXAMPLES

Run the web_connectivity test on http://torproject.org:
ooniprobe web_connectivity --url http://torproject.org/


Run the http_invalid_request_line test to detect middleboxes:

ooniprobe http_invalid_request_line


Run the http_header_field_manipulation test to detect middleboxes:

ooniprobe http_header_field_manipulation


List all the available tests:

ooniprobe -s


Start the web user interface:

ooniprobe -w


AUTHOR

The Tor Project

COPYRIGHT

2016, The Tor Project
December 7, 2016 2.1.0