Gopher, Gemini, Spartan, Titan Proxy

A webproxy which you can host yourself and use like a Gemini client.

Features

• gopher, gemini, spartan protocol support to varying degree
• hyphenations!
• favicons
• ---- horizontal line / "thematic separator" support
• "up" and "top" (root of the capsule) buttons
• tabs, history, cache are provided by your browser
• work as "proxy" for a single gemini capsule

Currently lacking features

• only most common gopher selectors supported (0,1,7,I,h)
• spartan input not supported
• error messages not explained well enough

Future plans

• proper input for spartan
• better handling of "fake address bar" input
• force cache of favicons (so F5 wouldn't refetch them)
• inline images

Security note

Note that currently certificates not checked in any way, and client certificates are also not implemented.

Target browsers

At the moment, only latest Firefox and Chrome are tested. More browsers are possible to add if someone is going to use it.

Installation

If you have docker:

git clone ...
cd ggstproxy
docker build -t ggstproxy build
sh ./start.sh

Otherwise:

1. Clone the repo

   git clone ... cd ggstproxy

2. You likely will need to change shebangs to something more advanced than plain sh (I tested it only with busybox ash):

   sed -i '1s/sh/bash/' html/cgi-bin/*.sh

3. Start the web server, pointing its document root to the directory with index.html file. In case of lighttpd:

   sed "/document-root/s_".*""$PWD/data/html"" data/lighttpd.conf lighttpd -D -f $PWD/data/lighttpd.conf

4. Open http://localhost:8000/ in your browser.

If everything went well, you should be redirected to http://localhost:8000/gemini/alexey.shpakovsky.ru/startpage.gmi and see a startpage with a bunch of links and search bars.