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1. Mr. Leveck (sysop (a) 1436.ninja)

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2. Kevin Sangeelee (kevin (a) susa.net)

Do you mean to throw away the first 8k of content bytes?


Sent from phone

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020, 14:14 Mr. Leveck, <sysop at 1436.ninja> wrote:

> [repost in new thread]
>
> Greetings All!
>
>  My www site has for sometime been displaying a homespun gopher proxy
>  (IE: my website displays my gopherhole). Since I recently installed a
>  gemini server on my home network, I wanted to expand my proxy to gemini
>  too. This is complete: https://leveck.us/gemini/1436.ninja/
>
>  I am having issues, however. With the gopher proxy, I hand binary files
>  over to curl via php after sending the appropriate header. Curl doesn't
>  currently support gemini, and I have been chasing my tail on getting
>  images (and binary files such as my RPoD Palm OS Software Horde) to work
>  with my proxy.
>
>  Anyone got ideas?
>
>  Here is the networky portion of the proxy source (line #s from vim):
>  28  //Gemini Protocol Code
>  29  //Nathaniel Leveck September 2020
>  30  $host = $host;
>  31  $port = 1965;
>  32  $cert = '/var/www/cert/cert.pem';
>  33  $context = stream_context_create();
>  34 stream_context_set_option($context, 'ssl', 'local_cert', $cert);
>  35  stream_context_set_option($context, 'ssl', 'verify_peer', false);
>  36  stream_context_set_option($context, 'ssl', 'verify_peer_name', false);
>  37  stream_context_set_option($context, 'ssl', 'allow_self_signed', true);
>  38  $socket = stream_socket_client('ssl://'.$host.':'.$port, $error,
> $errorString, 2,
>  39  STREAM_CLIENT_CONNECT, $context);
>  40  fwrite($socket, "gemini://" . $url . "\r\n");
>  41  fread($socket,8192); //disregard the status + meta
>  42  $content = fread($socket,8192000); //read a suitably large number of
> bytes
>
>  fread, I assume, is my issue. socketread showed me no love...
>
> --
> jynx
> gopher://1436.ninja
> gemini://1436.ninja
> https://leveck.us
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3. Mr. Leveck (leveck (a) leveck.us)


On 9/10/20 9:12 AM, Kevin Sangeelee wrote:
> Do you mean to throw away the first 8k of content bytes?
> 
> 
> Sent from phone

Yes.

All this does is toss out the status and meta data. I could specify 8MB 
to toss out, and the result would be the same in PHP using this method.

This is alpha software. Later on I'll do something with the status and 
metadata, such as implement redirection, etc.

Right now, I just want to figure out binary files...

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jynx
gopher://1436.ninja
gemini://1436.ninja
https://leveck.us

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4. Charles E. Lehner (cel (a) celehner.com)

Hi Mr. Leveck,

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:19:19 -0600
"Mr. Leveck" <leveck at leveck.us> wrote:

> On 9/10/20 9:12 AM, Kevin Sangeelee wrote:
> > Do you mean to throw away the first 8k of content bytes?
> > 
> > 
> > Sent from phone  
> 
> Yes.
> 
> All this does is toss out the status and meta data. I could specify
> 8MB to toss out, and the result would be the same in PHP using this

Perhaps you could use fgets($socket) instead, to read just the first line. 
The server might send the status + meta line in the same packet as the 
initial body data. In that case, reading just the first line with the 
buffered reader will save the rest of the body for later reading.

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Charles L.
gemini://celehner.com/
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5. Mr. Leveck (leveck (a) leveck.us)



On 9/10/20 9:28 AM, Charles E. Lehner wrote:
> Hi Mr. Leveck,
> 
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:19:19 -0600
> "Mr. Leveck" <leveck at leveck.us> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/10/20 9:12 AM, Kevin Sangeelee wrote:
>>> Do you mean to throw away the first 8k of content bytes?
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from phone
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> All this does is toss out the status and meta data. I could specify
>> 8MB to toss out, and the result would be the same in PHP using this
> 
> Perhaps you could use fgets($socket) instead, to read just the first 
line. The server might send the status + meta line in the same packet as 
the initial body data. In that case, reading just the first line with the 
buffered reader will save the rest of the body for later reading.
> 

I get all the content just fine...

I am looking for advice on serving binary files via my proxy.

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jynx
gopher://1436.ninja
gemini://1436.ninja/
https://leveck.us

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6. Alex Schroeder (alex (a) gnu.org)

On Thu Sep 10, 2020 at 11:19 AM CEST, Mr. Leveck wrote:
> On 9/10/20 9:12 AM, Kevin Sangeelee wrote:
> > Do you mean to throw away the first 8k of content bytes?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> All this does is toss out the status and meta data. I could specify
> 8MB
> to toss out, and the result would be the same in PHP using this
> method.

I'm thinking you're going to toss out 8K which is probably much more
than just the status and the meta data. fread is going to read past
the \r\n terminating the status and it'll keep reading... and then you
toss it all out. I think what you need to do is read everything, and
then search and toss all the bytes up to the first \n or something
like that.

Cheers
Alex

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7. Mr. Leveck (leveck (a) leveck.us)



On 9/10/20 11:27 AM, Alex Schroeder wrote:

> I'm thinking you're going to toss out 8K which is probably much more
> than just the status and the meta data. fread is going to read past
> the \r\n terminating the status and it'll keep reading... and then you
> toss it all out. I think what you need to do is read everything, and
> then search and toss all the bytes up to the first \n or something
> like that.
> 
> Cheers
> Alex

One would think, but that is not the case. Since everyone is hung up on 
that instead of my actual query, I have captured that initial status and 
now display it on the top of gemini:// pages on the proxy. Prior to that 
I was 100% successful in capturing all the document content the proxy 
code was requesting. All I have done now is assigned it to a var named 
$status and print that in a displayed page header.

I am looking for advice on binary files. If anyone has any thoughts on 
that, it would be much appreciated.

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jynx
gopher://1436.ninja
gemini://1436.ninja/
https://leveck.us

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8. Charles E. Lehner (cel (a) celehner.com)

Mr. Leveck,

I looked into it more, comparing this broken image:
https://leveck.us/gemini/1436.ninja/the_servers.png

with the good original:
gemini://1436.ninja/the_servers.png

The proxied one has this header "<!-- GEMINI! --><!-- 
1436.ninja/the_servers.png --><!-- 192.168.0.45 -->". That breaks the 
image. Also, in the content at byte 24576 (0x6000), the files diverge. The 
proxied one seems to restart sending the PNG image there, with some bytes 
missing. Maybe a variable is incorrectly set in your code?

Charles

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:35:10 -0600
"Mr. Leveck" <leveck at leveck.us> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 9/10/20 11:27 AM, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> 
> > I'm thinking you're going to toss out 8K which is probably much more
> > than just the status and the meta data. fread is going to read past
> > the \r\n terminating the status and it'll keep reading... and then
> > you toss it all out. I think what you need to do is read
> > everything, and then search and toss all the bytes up to the first
> > \n or something like that.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Alex
> 
> One would think, but that is not the case. Since everyone is hung up
> on that instead of my actual query, I have captured that initial
> status and now display it on the top of gemini:// pages on the proxy.
> Prior to that I was 100% successful in capturing all the document
> content the proxy code was requesting. All I have done now is
> assigned it to a var named $status and print that in a displayed page
> header.
> 
> I am looking for advice on binary files. If anyone has any thoughts
> on that, it would be much appreciated.
> 
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9. Mr. Leveck (leveck (a) leveck.us)

On 9/10/20 11:38 AM, Charles E. Lehner wrote:
> Mr. Leveck,
> 
> I looked into it more, comparing this broken image:
> https://leveck.us/gemini/1436.ninja/the_servers.png
> 
> with the good original:
> gemini://1436.ninja/the_servers.png
> 
> The proxied one has this header "<!-- GEMINI! --><!-- 
1436.ninja/the_servers.png --><!-- 192.168.0.45 -->". That breaks the 
image. Also, in the content at byte 24576 (0x6000), the files diverge. The 
proxied one seems to restart sending the PNG image there, with some bytes 
missing. Maybe a variable is incorrectly set in your code?
> 
> Charles

Useful.

The comments were added during troubleshooting something else. I think I 
have fixed all the above, but that image is still broken. I'll keep digging.

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jynx
gopher://1436.ninja
gemini://1436.ninja/
https://leveck.us

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10. Mr. Leveck (leveck (a) leveck.us)

On 9/10/20 11:50 AM, Mr. Leveck wrote:
> On 9/10/20 11:38 AM, Charles E. Lehner wrote:
>> Mr. Leveck,
>>
>> I looked into it more, comparing this broken image:
>> https://leveck.us/gemini/1436.ninja/the_servers.png
>>
>> with the good original:
>> gemini://1436.ninja/the_servers.png
>>
>> The proxied one has this header "<!-- GEMINI! --><!-- 
>> 1436.ninja/the_servers.png --><!-- 192.168.0.45 -->". That breaks the 
>> image. Also, in the content at byte 24576 (0x6000), the files diverge. 
>> The proxied one seems to restart sending the PNG image there, with 
>> some bytes missing. Maybe a variable is incorrectly set in your code?
>>
>> Charles

This led me to it. Thank you very much!

New code:

status = stream_get_line($socket,512,"\r\n");
content = stream_get_contents($socket);

The first line strips off 512 bytes, or until \r\n is encountered. The 
second is much better for my intended use than fread at acquiring the 
rest. Binary files now work.

Now I need to iron out some other things like relative URLs...

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jynx
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