fur

Fur: command-line Gopher client

This is my crappy command line Gopher client.

This project exists only as a scratchpad for me to experiment with the Gopher protocol, which I am interested in/fascinated by for absolutely no good reason whatsoever. There are better libraries and tools around, with better levels of completeness. Probably better to use those.

I shoved some nice things in here because it was easy:

• HTML rendering using (a fork of) https://github.com/MichaelMure/go-term-markdown/
• Image rendering for I and g types using https://github.com/shabbyrobe/termimg/
• Automatic unpacking of UUEncoded (6) types, which I added before I noticed that I can't find anything that uses 6 anywhere.

The experiments I'm currently looking at:

• CAPS file handling
• TLS
• Gopher Plus
• Error handling
• Fixing DotReader to ignore all trailing '.\n' lines, not just the first.

Expectation Management

Feel free to use this or take bits from it as you see fit (MIT license == go nuts). I won't maintain this to any kind of standard though. This is a scratchpad and a bit of fun for me, not a product. Issues may be responded to whenever I happen to get around to them, but PRs are unlikely to be accepted.

Install

Source only:

go install ./cmd/fur

Using

Easy!

$ fur gopher.floodgap.com
$ fur gopher://gopher.floodgap.com
$ fur hngopher.com
$ fur -x=i search "hacker news"

Then if you see a link, just copy and paste it in a subsequent invocation to fur.

To get the raw output, use the --raw flag.

HTML item types (h) work best if you have w3m installed.

Links

Gopher sites:

• GopherPedia
• Floodgap
• SDF Public Access UNIX System
• Large list of known gopher servers
• Search Gopher with Veronica-2
• Hacker News

Gopher history:

• https://tedium.co/2017/06/22/modern-day-gopher-history/
• https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm
• https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/11/the-web-may-have-won-but-gopher-tunnels-on/
• http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/relevance.html

Server software:

• https://github.com/gophernicus/gophernicus

Gopher protocol:

• https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436
• https://sdfeu.org/w/tutorials:gopher
• gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/tech/gopherplus.txt
• https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-matavka-gopher-ii-03
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.sys.mac.announce/xbgsusdfETc/S2793OidrSQJ
• https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2018/02/msg00038.html

TLS:

• https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-03-07-gopher-server-tls.html
• https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Comments_on_2018-01-10_Encrypted_Gopher
• https://github.com/0x16h/gopher-tls/