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AgregoreWeb / agregore-browser

A minimal browser for the distributed web (Desktop version)

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Open RangerMauve opened 2 years ago

RangerMauve commented 2 years ago

There's been some folks asking about gopher:// support in Agregore.

To make that possible we'll need the following:

[ ] Identify a gopher client for node.js that we may use
[ ] Create a gopher-fetch library to interact with gopher:// URLs
[ ] Add it to Agregore
[ ] Detect when gopher pages are getting served and convert them to HTML (similar to the gemini extension)

If anyone would be interested in taking this on I'd be more than happy to help with guidance and to review PRs. 🎉

johanbove commented 2 years ago

Some work was done by Matt1 in this project: https://github.com/matt1/gopher-browser and this project is using this Deno library: https://deno.land/x/gopher@v0.0.14-alpha

Perhaps that could be integrated somehow.

RangerMauve commented 2 years ago

Sweet, always cool to see more experimental browsers going around. 😁

Hmmm, sadly deno would be hard to integrate with Agregore since it's Node.js based. 🤔

Are there any node.js gopher libraries that could be used?