Re: Issues with the reference gopher client, magic is needed.
On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 14:22:44 -0700
"Mr. Leveck" <leveck@leveck.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:21:22 +0100
> Quentin Rameau <quinq@fifth.space> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 11:29:20 -0700
> > "Mr. Leveck" <leveck@leveck.us> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Nathaniel,
> >
> > > Seeking advice.
> > >
> > > I wrote a tiny sh script that uses gsed (I need regex) to clean up
> > > the gophermap output for the cgi code on the Gutenberg
> > > rewrite.
> >
> > Where can we see the code, is it
> > gopher://dante.pglaf.org/0/cgi-bin/sourcecode ?
> >
> > > Lynx of
> > > course displays perfectly. Sacc displays my leading `i' on text
> > > lines (!! -- if you use telnet, or G in lynx to change the type to
> > > 0 or pipe to od -c the output is identical to any other gophermap
> > > so I do not understand this behavior). UMN Gopher randomly chooses
> > > to display or not text lines.
> > >
> > > Text lines start with i. Text lines end with \tnull.host\t1. EOL
> > > is \r\n.
> >
> > Text lines are expected to be formated as any types:
> > 1descriptive name\tselector\tserver address\tport\r\n
> >
> > > What is the magic reference gopher expects?
> >
> > You can find the reference here https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1436.txt
> > although it's a little dated and sometimes a little imprecise.
> >
> > > Basically every cgi app I
> > > have ever written refuses to correctly display in gopher unless it
> > > is called from a gophermap as `=cgi-bin/app' -- which does not
> > > work for type 7.
> > >
> > > Disclaimer to avoid a lecture: Yes, I am fully aware I am
> > > shoehorning functionality into something that wasn't designed for
> > > it. However, unless I can pass user input there will be no search.
> > >
> > > Help!!
> >
> > With pleasure, if you have the means to, you can come talk directly
> > on IRC too, #bitreich-en on Freenode.
> >
>
> Thanks to the bitreich crew, figured out the issue! Appreciate it
> again, sorry for being obviously frustrated...
>
> The skeleton of the project can be seen here:
> gopher://gopher.leveck.us/0/paste/1517088073
> https://leveck.us/paste/1517088073
>
Fixed my pastebin code too... what the actual conf file looks like:
gopher://gopher.leveck.us/0/paste/1517092739
https://leveck.us/paste/21517092739
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Nathaniel Leveck
gopher://gopher.leveck.us
https://www.leveck.us
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