proxy gopher over http.

gopher-proxy allows to proxy gopher over HTTP, which is mainly useful for HTTP-ifying a specific gopher space.

A simple invocation looks like this:

gopher-proxy --host example.org --http-port 8080

In this particular example gopher-proxy does the following things:

• Takes HTTP requests on 127.0.0.1:8080 (to be used by a proxying web server, like nginx), converts those to gopher requests to example.org and returns the gopher responses as HTTP responses

• Links menu items pointing to external servers to gopher:// URLs (this ensures that only one gopher server is proxied) and recognizes URL links which are converted to normal HTML links

• Tries to guess the correct mime-type for every gopher-served file (as it is not included in the response) and wraps text files in a HTML container.

• And generally works hard to offer the best HTTP equivalent of a given gopher space :)

To learn about the other parameters for tweaking the behavior of gopher-proxysee the readme.

gopher-proxy

gopher-proxy is a tiny wai application running on top of warp. It acts as a gopher-over-http proxy for a specific server, e. g. to http-ify a gopher space.

Usage

Example usage:

gopher-proxy --host foo.org --http-port 8080

In this particular example, gopher-proxy would proxy the foo.org gopher server and bind its http service on 127.0.0.1:8080 (to be proxied to by another web server like nginx).

These are all optional flags which allow to change default behavior:

• --port: The port of the gopher server, defaults to 70
• --css-path: Use some specific css file instead of the default one.
• --css-url: The http path of the css file, defaults to /gopher-proxy.css (should be changed, if your gopher server has a file with the same name
• --base-url: The path of the directory which will appear as root directory of gopher-proxy to the user, defaults to /. Should be changed if you configured your proxying web server to expose gopher-proxy as, say /gopher-space/.
• --listen-public: If this flag is set, gopher-proxy will accept connections on its public IP address(es).
• --default-mime-type: Mime type to use if gopher-proxy can't guess it, defaults to "application/octet-stream"
• --timeout: connection timeout in milliseconds, defaults to 10 seconds.
• --server-name: The server name of the server to proxy, defaults to the host name. This value is used to detect wether a menu item is pointing to another gopher server than the proxied one. This is particularly useful, if you use e. g. 127.0.0.1 instead of the public host name.
• --title: Sets the first part of the HTML title-tag, defaults to gopher-proxy.

Things to keep in mind

• Your gopher server must send UTF-8-encoded gopher responses
• gopher-proxy might misinterpret certain content, because of the context-sensitive nature of gopher
• gopher-proxy does not support Gopher+

Roadmap

• [ ] Add Logging.