SNOWFLAKE-CLIENT(1)
π SNOWFLAKE-CLIENT β the girlies' guide (section 1, User Commands)
okay so bestie, buckle up, we're reading the manual for snowflake-client π this is a User Commands page, section 1, and it's giving "cute little program with a big job." let's get into it β¨
πΈ NAME πΈ
snowflake-client β a WebRTC pluggable transport client for Tor π¦
β¨ SYNOPSIS β¨
snowflake-client [options]
no cap, that's the whole vibe β you just run it with whatever flags you need π
π§ DESCRIPTION π§
so like, Snowflake helps users circumvent censorship by making a WebRTC connection to volunteer proxies π«Ά those proxies then relay Tor traffic to a Snowflake bridge, and from there it goes through the Tor network. literally the whole pipeline is just kind people running proxies for the greater good, iconic behavior honestly π
π Usage of snowflake-client: π
here's the full list of flags, every single one, no skips, no skimming, we are thorough in this household π
-ampcachestring β URL of AMP cache to use as a proxy for signaling π-frontstring β front domain π-icestring β comma-separated list of ICE servers π§-keep-local-addressesβ keep local LAN address ICE candidates π-logstring β name of log file π-log-to-state-dirβ resolve the log file relative to tor's pt state dir π-logToStateDirβ use-log-to-state-dirinstead (yes bestie, it's the same thing, just spelled differently π)-maxint β capacity for number of multiplexed WebRTC peers (default1) π’-unsafe-loggingβ prevent logs from being scrubbed π¨-urlstring β URL of signaling broker π
heads up: -unsafe-logging is literally called unsafe β it stops your logs from being scrubbed. read that twice before you turn it on, bestie π
π SEE ALSO π
go touch grass on the website, it's cute π±
π«Ά THE SIGN-OFF π«Ά
that's the whole page, and it's from the snowflake-client manual, dated July 2021 β the footer girlies said SNOWFLAKE-CLIENT(1) and honestly, slay. go be a main character on the Tor network, ily, bye ππ¦β¨
π¦ where this page comes from
- alpine 3.24: snowflake-client-doc 2.15.3-r0 Β· BSD-3-Clause
- debian bookworm: snowflake-client 2.5.1-1+b3 Β· BSD-3-Clause
- debian trixie: snowflake-client 2.5.1-1+b16 Β· BSD-3-Clause
- ubuntu noble: snowflake-client 2.5.1-1build1 Β· BSD-3-Clause
- ubuntu noble: snowflake-client 2.5.1-1ubuntu0.24.04.3 Β· BSD-3-Clause
- ubuntu questing: snowflake-client 2.5.1-1build1
- ubuntu resolute: snowflake-client 2.10.1-1 Β· BSD-3-Clause
- ubuntu stonking: snowflake-client 2.10.1-1 Β· BSD-3-Clause
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms