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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>
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
Parent:
Re: Firefox text/gemini (by news@zzo38computer.org.invalid on Wed, 20 Apr 2022 07:54:05 -0700)
Start of thread:
Firefox text/gemini (by news@zzo38computer.org.invalid on Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:42:23 -0800)
Children:
Re: Firefox text/gemini (by news@zzo38computer.org.invalid on Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:44:45 -0700)