Gopher support?

[ryliejamesthomas]

Hi! Really enjoying the browser so far!

Just wondering if you plan on adding support for the gopher protocol.

[alcinnz]

I'm glad you're enjoying it.

To answer your question, kind of. I'd be very keen to accept this contribution, or maybe it'd be better as seperate but seamlessly integrated app.

However I've got plenty else on my plate before I implement this myself.

[ryliejamesthomas]

Very understandable!

It already does a decent job of sending gopher pages to external programs I think. But I guess a handy option at some point would be to be able to send gopher:// links off to the floodgap proxy thing, which uses https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=[url]?

[alcinnz]

Or it should be trivial enough to just send it to WebKit as plain text, in much the same way I've implemented the odysseus: or icon: URI schemes.

But then I'm not all that familiar with the Gopher protocol.

[ryliejamesthomas]

It should be! The way links are written in gophermaps could make it look pretty messy. But if it was wrapped in a <pre> element, or even styleable like the 'View Source' pages I think that could be a good building block for the future.

[alcinnz]

This file would be a good reference for anyone interested: https://github.com/alcinnz/Odysseus/blob/master/src/Services/icons.vala

Though you'd also need to add it to the build system and initialization routine.