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From: Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid>
Subject: Re: Lynx support plans?
Date: 12 Jan 2023 16:28:26 +1000
Message-ID: <63bfa88a@news.ausics.net>
Visiblink <visiblink@mail.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 15:48:09 -0500
Anna K <agk@sdf.invalid> wrote:
>
> I found some exploratory conversation on the lynx mailing list from
> 2020 (visiblink, dcav, etc participated), but if I remember right
> gemini was being heavily bikeshedded then, and now has settled into a
> more-or-less finished protocol.
>
> Has anyone tried submitting a patch, corresponding with the
> maintainer, or forking it since then?
I don't really know. I asked the question on the mailing list and they
responded that someone should submit a patch. That's fair. I can
program in C, but not well enough to risk every lynx user's security...
In theory the lynxcgi URL is like a basic plug-in system, so you
could potentially write a Gemini plug-in for Lynx.
https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/lynx_url_support.html#cgi_url
It's very much like the Dillo plug-in system. Dillo has a Gemini
plug-in which is actually just a Bash script that fetches Gemini
pages and converts them to HTML. So it shouldn't be hard to adapt
that to work with Lynx.
Dillo-Gemini plug-in:
https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25V0D7DtSnZyyAp1NbgOJF2ZAFMeUy9eXwyClCEKYUYAI%3D.sha256
The only difficulty is that it doesn't look like Lynx can associate
new protocols to lynxcgi scripts, so gemini:// links wouldn't work
directly like in Dillo. It seem you'd have to make a HTML form
similar to a Gemini proxy website, and always enter Gemini URLs
into that instead of into Lynx directly.
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Parent:
Re: Lynx support plans? (by Visiblink <visiblink@mail.invalid> on Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:48:47 -0800)
Start of thread:
Re: Hey Geminispace (by Ben <benk@tilde.team> on Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:31:07 +0330)
Children:
Re: Lynx support plans? (by Andrew <singletona082@gmail.com> on Thu, 12 Jan 2023 07:48:41 -0600)