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[Tech][Idea] Local (Magic) Proxy HTTP to Gemini

The Gnuserland gnuserland at mailbox.org

Mon Jun 21 14:26:26 BST 2021

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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

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