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Re: Firefox text/gemini

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From: Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net>

Subject: Re: Firefox text/gemini

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:55:06 -0400

Message-ID: <87zgkfshyt.fsf@cassilda.carcosa.net>

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news@zzo38computer.org.invalid writes:

threeoh6000 <threeoh6000@news.eternal-september.org> wrote:
> Are you using XPCOM with this because that's was retired ages ago AFAIK.
Yes, but I am using a old version of Firefox. (WebExtensions does not seem
to do everything that I want it to do. Do you know if it does?)

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.

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Jason McBrayer | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,

jmcbray@carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies,

| but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”

| ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow

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