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Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com
Thu Sep 3 08:11:17 BST 2020
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Well I suppose you can't keep a good idea down!?
Maybe there is still a role for a proxy where you can plug in command line utilities, like html2gmi or others - could be a flexible solution, or preferred if people want to hack on a python flavoured proxy server.
I also fixed the link below which was broken for a while - the updated page is now here:
gemini://gemini.marmaladefoo.com/blog/1-Sep-2020_The_Duckling_Proxy.gmi
Best Wishes
- Luke
On 01-Sep-2020 01:06, Jake wrote:
Literally just finished getting my own http proxy and AV98 patch
together and decided to check my emails and see that you've beaten me
to the punch! Your proxy is much better than mine (mine is basically
Agena with a subprocess call to html2gmi) so I might just shelve mine! ;)
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On 1 Sep. 2020, 7:11 am, Luke Emmet < luke at marmaladefoo.com> wrote:
Hi All
I'm pleased to announce The Duckling Proxy 🦆 - a scheme-specific
proxy
to access HTTP resources from normal Gemini clients.
Motivated by my recent discussion on the merits of opening up
access to
the Small Web in a sane way. One option is to plug an adapter into
your
client, the other is to use a scheme specific proxy.
gemini://gemini.marmaladefoo.com/blog/31-Aug-2020_The_Duckling_Proxy.gmi
<http://marmaladefoo.com/blog/31-Aug-2020_The_Duckling_Proxy.gmi>
So any Gemini client that supports scheme specific proxies should be
able to connect to Duckling. Another example of a scheme-specific
proxy
is Solderpunk's Agena proxy which allows access to gopher://
resources.
Duckling works in a similar way.
Once your proxy is in place and running, and you have configured your
client to use it, you can request http resources using normal Gemini
request:
Client: <http-url><crlf>
Server: 20 text/gemini
...continues...
Duckling translates all web pages into gemtext, so it is just a normal
Gemini server, as far as your client is concerned.
View the Small Web using your favourite Gemini client, and benefit
from:
* No tracking or cookies
* No javascript
* No server styling, just content
* No client headers
Obviously, not every web site will work as expected, especially those
requiring client side javascript/cookies/forms in order to work
effectively. In this case, just launch your normal web browser. Or
maybe
give those pages a miss anyway?
Currently the following clients can be used with Duckling Proxy
* AV-98 - apply the patch from the source repo then use `set
http_proxy
machine:port` to access
* diohsc - edit diohscrc config file
* gemget - use -p option
* GemiNaut (unreleased build, coming soon, PM me if you want early
access)
Any other clients that implement proxy support in the future should be
able to use it. I understand Amfora will be able to connect to it
in an
upcoming release. Let me know if you implement proxy support in your
client and I'll add it to the list.
Best Wishes
- Luke