meek mit Homebrew, apk, Nix, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• meek-client
• meek-server

Projektgeschichte

The official tag history reaches back to 0.0 in February 2014 and 0.1 in March 2014, with David Fifield as the author on early commits. The current Tor GitLab project was created in June 2020 as part of Tor's anti-censorship pluggable-transports namespace, preserving a project with older history.

The README explains the architecture: `meek-client` runs on the censored client, `meek-server` runs on a Tor relay, and reflector components for App Engine, nginx, PHP, WSGI, and browser-extension helpers make HTTPS traffic look like allowed web traffic.

Adoptionsgeschichte

meek's adoption is tied to Tor Browser's censorship-circumvention workflow, where pluggable transports help users connect when direct Tor access is blocked. The Tor support documentation keeps circumvention guidance under Tor Browser support, while the package input shows meek available in Homebrew, Alpine, Nix, and Arch.

Its deployment history is also shaped by changing support for domain fronting among large providers, so meek is best understood as one member of Tor's anti-censorship transport family rather than a general-purpose proxy.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users normally encounter meek through Tor pluggable-transport configuration rather than by hand-running it. The README documents direct client usage with `meek-client --url=... --front=...`, server-side `meek-server`, and helper components for reflector services and browser-based TLS camouflage.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

meek is significant because it packages anti-censorship research into small Unix-style client and server binaries. For packagers, it is a privacy-networking tool whose value comes from predictable executable names, Tor integration, and minimal visible configuration rather than from broad standalone CLI features.

Zeitleiste

• 2014: Official tag 0.0 is created in February, followed by 0.1 in March.
• 2020: Current Tor GitLab project is created in the anti-censorship pluggable-transports namespace.
• 2022: Official tag v0.38.0 is created.

Related projects

• meek is part of Tor's pluggable-transport ecosystem and relates to Tor Browser, Tor bridges, domain fronting, App Engine reflectors, nginx/PHP/WSGI reflectors, and browser-extension TLS camouflage.

Quellen

• https://gitlab.torproject.org/api/v4/projects/tpo%2Fanti-censorship%2Fpluggable-transports%2Fmeek
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/api/v4/projects/tpo%2Fanti-censorship%2Fpluggable-transports%2Fmeek/repository/tags
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/meek
• https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/meek/-/raw/main/README
• https://support.torproject.org/tor-browser/circumvention/