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Re: Firefox text/gemini

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From: news@zzo38computer.org.invalid

Subject: Re: Firefox text/gemini

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:44:45 -0700

Message-ID: <1650501560.bystand@zzo38computer.org>

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Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net> wrote:

You can't write a WebExtension that's a Gemini client, because JS
doesn't have access to raw sockets. For this same reason, the current
version of the OverBite extension for Gopher isn't a complete solution
in itself; it rewrites URLs which are then served by the Floodgap
Gopher-to-HTTP proxy.

Then that is a problem with WebExtensions. (Another thing that I would

want to do, but that it doesn't do, is to be able to write extensions

in C.)

However, my code does not implement the Gemini protocol (although I

want to do that too, and it can probably be done directly in XPCOM

without needing a proxy); it only implements the Gemini file format

(which can be used with local files and Gempub, and any HTTP(S) servers

that serve text/gemini files, but I don't know if any do so).

I don't know if WebExtensions can implement file formats, and I also don't

know if any HTTP(S) server serves Gemini files. (Do you know?)

(Note: You can load ZIP archives (including EPUB) in Firefox by prefixing

the URL with "jar:" and adding "!/" on the end. This is a feature that I

use, but intend in future to make it automatically redirect to a jar: URL

if loading any ZIP file (including any whose MIME type has "+zip").)

--

Don't laugh at the moon when it is day time in France.

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Re: Firefox text/gemini (by Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net> on Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:55:06 -0400)

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Firefox text/gemini (by news@zzo38computer.org.invalid on Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:42:23 -0800)

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Re: Firefox text/gemini (by Cyrus Valkonen <cyrus.valkonen@gmail.com> on Fri, 20 May 2022 15:52:57 +0200)