Hi Francis, this is pretty cool and exactly what I was just dreaming about! I look forward to try it ASAP! Thanks for sharing this!!! My best, TGL On 6/21/21 11:31 AM, Francis Siefken wrote: > Hi gnuserland, > > There is Duckling Proxy. > "Duckling proxy is a Gemini proxy to access the Small Web. Connecting to it with your Gemini client means you can access many web pages directly with your favourite client." > => https://github.com/LukeEmmet/duckling-proxy <https://github.com/LukeEmmet/duckling-proxy> > > I recently created an elinks feature request for gemini, my favorite console http browser, it appearently also supports gopher, nntp, ftp and bittorrent. > https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/issues/121 <https://github.com/rkd77/elinks/issues/121> > > Op ma 21 jun. 2021 om 15:21 schreef The Gnuserland <gnuserland@mailbox.org <mailto:gnuserland@mailbox.org>>: > > > > Hi Geminauts, > > > > Splitting the daily navigation across HTTP and Gemini is becoming > > frustrating, I'd like to do everything inside the Geminspace... > > > > I am not a programmer and often I just dream about unrealistic thing but > > I toss this idea here... > > > > Since we have, at least in the *nix world, a lot of TUI web browser, I > > wonder if it would be feasible/possible creating a kind of local server > > proxy that convert on the fly the page from html to gemini, let's call > > it Geminator. > > > > I have my fantastic Geminator runtime as background process and in my > > Gemini client I write something like: > > > > gemini://localhost/geminator/www.phoronix.com <http://www.phoronix.com> > > > > Let's that we can decide which back-end using (e.g. w3m, elinks, etc...) > > this would be the process in my dream: > > > > > > 1. I do the request to Geminator; > > > > 2. Geminator passes the request to w3m; > > > > 3. w3m renders and buffers the page and passes it to Geminator; > > > > 4. Geminator translates the page into a Gemini one (trying to convert > > also links in Geminator readable links); > > > > 5. Geminator send the page back to my client; > > > > 6. I am happily browsing Internet from my favorite Gemini client. > > > > > > For sure it won't be perfect, it will also behaves weirdly, but I think > > it would be enough to navigate pages like for instance phoronix, or > > other news pages, some federated social networks, etc... > > > > > > Well I wrote it, I hope to not be banned from the mailing list... :D > > > > > > TGL > >
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