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   anthk to yeti   
   Re: web   
   22 Mar 25 21:52:32   
   
   From: anthk@openbsd.home   
      
   On 2025-01-17, yeti  wrote:   
   > not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Curl supports Gopher. Not Gemini though.   
   >   
   > Ncat and Netcat (check the existence of '-c' and '-T') can fetch stuff   
   > from Gemini servers:   
   >   
   > ------------------------------------------------------------------------   
   > $ printf 'gemini://geminiprotocol.net/\r\n' \   
   >| ncat --ssl geminiprotocol.net 1965 | less   
   > ------------------------------------------------------------------------   
   >   
   > ------------------------------------------------------------------------   
   > $ printf 'gemini://geminiprotocol.net/\r\n' \   
   >| nc -c -T noverify geminiprotocol.net 1965 | less   
   > ------------------------------------------------------------------------   
   >   
   > Wrapping that in some hands full of AWK to find links and iterate over   
   > them should not require deep magic.   
   >   
   > Some browsers capable of accessing gemini: can save the fetched files'   
   > and gemini pages' source, maybe they would even be easier to integrate   
   > in own scripts?   
   >   
   > TL;DR: There is no showstopper.   
   >   
      
   gem.awk (a gemini client written with gawk+openssl) works like that   
      
   I expanded it with some nice features   
      
   another one I'd like it's one to batch-dl a full phlog, easy to do   
   with basename, mkdir -p and a for loop iterating the array of links.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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