https://bugs.torproject.org/25344
5s matches DEFAULT_BROKER_POLL_INTERVAL in the JavaScript proxy.
This is set up so as long as the actual HTTPS requests take less time
than pollInterval, there will a steady one poll per pollInterval. If the
HTTPS requests take longer than that, there will be no delay between
polls.
This prohibits some nonsense like "./proxy-go -capacity -550", which
otherwise results in a panic like:
INFO: configuration.go:174: Created Configuration at &{[{[stun:stun.l.google.com:19302] }] All Balanced }
panic: makechan: size out of range
math/rand always uses a deterministic seed. The sequence of session IDs
was therefore always the same:
Uv38ByGCZU8WP18PmmIdcg
lWbHTRDYaB0NhtHpHgAWeQ
...
Multiple copies of this program would have had session ID collisions. I
don't know what the consequences of that would be.
