Add docs about doppelganger

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censored environment. But it does it slightly differently in details
that probably matter.
* **Domain fronting**
For years mtg supports domain fronting. This technique means that it fallbacks
to accessing a real website in case if request fails. It could fail by many
reasons: anti-replay protection, accidental access to the webserver or
stale request. Anyway, if mtg rejects this request, it does not break a
connection. It connects to the websites and replicates everything that client
has sent, and simply proxies it back as is. Users will see a response from
the real website, _byte-to-byte identical_ to the response of the real netloc.
* **Doppelganger**
mtg also is a doppelganger of the website it fronts. Sure, with domain fronting
users will see replies of the real website in case if something will go wrong.
But what about such cases when _everything is fine_?
In that case mtg mimics TLS connection statistical characteristics as close as
possible. Different application have different statistics of their patterns.
Big CDN steadily pumping the data, small websites burst with short easily
compressiable chunks of traffic.
mtg artificially emulates those delays to be statistically indistinguishable
from the real website even if it covers connection of the very specific app.
It also follows 2 most common patterns of traffic chunking, so censors
will have to put more resources to find out that we have Telegram here
but not a hookah webshop served by nginx.
* **Resource-efficient**
It has to be resource-efficient. It does not mean that you will see
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$ docker exec mtg-proxy /mtg access /config.toml
```
## Doppelganger
mtg can mimic real websites, please take a look at relevant section in example
config file.
mtg comes with some very good precollected statistics coming from
[ok.ru](https://ok.ru/). It does not mean that you have to cover yourself
by pretending that mtg is _ok.ru_. **Do not do that: ok.ru comes from very specific
ASNs, but not from VPS providers you are going to use.** What I want to say
is that defaults are very good enough to use as is because ok.ru for public
pages has a very generic profile of TLS packets delay.
But for better results it is recommended to teach mtg about the website you
will use as a domain front. In order to do that, you need to specify URLs
from this website. Just go to it, open WebDeveloper console and pick up
random URLs. For better results they have to be **from the same domain name
you are going to use as a disguise** but serve light and heavy content: pages,
images etc. Do not use many, 2-3 will probably work.
mtg will crawl these pages periodically, accumulating statistics and
using it as you go.
```toml
[defense.doppelganger]
urls = [
"https://lalala.com/index.html",
"https://lalala.com/contacts.html",
]
```
This is not very necessary. Keep in mind these rules:
1. If you are not sure what is this all about, do nothing. Defaults are good.
2. All URLs must be HTTPS
3. All URLs should be from the same domain name (but this is not a rule)
4. Do not use a lot of pages. Use _different_ pages. mtg will start using this
statistics when it will accumulate enough anyway.
5. These URLs should be directly accessible from mtg without proxies whatsoever
6. Do not create huge raids. mtg will repeatedly crawl in raids, making N repeats.
Do not use high N, you do not want to be noticeable.
7. It makes no sense to have small delay between raids. Usually webservers
do not update their TLS settings each hour.
8. If you have some specific knowledge if webserver is using
[TLS Dynamic Record Sizing](https://blog.cloudflare.com/optimizing-tls-over-tcp-to-reduce-latency/), you
can use a very specific setting. This are Cloudflare, Go standard webservers,
[caddy](https://caddyserver.com/) and [H2O](https://h2o.examp1e.net/). If so,
you can enable `drs` setting.
9. **If you are not sure, touch nothing!**
## Metrics
Out of the box, mtg works with
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//
// In other word, a combination of Dynamic TLS Record Sizing hints us for
// Weibull distribution.
//
// But we also have to keep in mind that DRS is not well spread yet. In most cases
// users still rely on OpenSSL or webserver defaults. OpenSSL chunks with
// biggest packet sizes, nginx relies on static setting that is 16k by default.
// Thus, dynamic sizing has to be present but we cannot oblige users to use that.
type Stats struct {
sizeLastRequested time.Time
sizeCounter int