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[tech] Any way to retrieve an entire capsule?

1. Stephane Bortzmeyer (stephane (a) sources.org)

I do not find a program that, given, a capsule name, would retrieve
recursively all the contents of the capsule (assuming there is at
least one path from the "home page" to it). Something like httrack for
the Web. This would be useful for backups, for instance.

I am planning to write one
<https://framagit.org/bortzmeyer/agunua/-/issues/20> but I wonder if
there is something already existing, among the command-line clients,
something I missed.

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2. Benjamin Henrion (zoobab (a) gmail.com)

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 7:58 AM Stephane Bortzmeyer
<stephane@sources.org> wrote:
>
> I do not find a program that, given, a capsule name, would retrieve
> recursively all the contents of the capsule (assuming there is at
> least one path from the "home page" to it). Something like httrack for
> the Web. This would be useful for backups, for instance.
>
> I am planning to write one
> <https://framagit.org/bortzmeyer/agunua/-/issues/20> but I wonder if
> there is something already existing, among the command-line clients,
> something I missed.

It should be built-in the protocol, something along the lines of "lftp mirror":

https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/lftp-mirror-example/

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3. Stephane Bortzmeyer (stephane (a) sources.org)

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 09:07:23AM +0200,
 Benjamin Henrion <zoobab@gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 30 lines which said:

> It should be built-in the protocol, something along the lines of "lftp mirror":

I don't think so. Gemini protocol tries to be simple and minimum. And
the protocol already offers all the necessary features, the biggest
problem is local (saving in local files, while guarding against
servers using funny names for resources).

May be the only missing thing is a way to inform the client of the
allowable behaviour. (There is no standard robots.txt, even for the
Web.)

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