[gopher] [Gopher Clients]: Chrome Extension

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Tue Dec 16 01:52:53 UTC 2014


> > That's correct (at least with respect to the URL bar). Look at the source
> > for how I got around that. It was a big kludge but it mostly worked.
> >
> > Once you have control of the page, such as forwarding it to a chrome URL
> > under the control of the extension, you should be able to open a socket and
> > perform menu parsing and display.
> 
> So in other words the schema part of the URI
> would still have to be "hacked up" but at least
> now we can open up raw TCP sockets
> and have better control of the underlying comms?

AIUI, yes. I can't really tell you how to implement the sockets, though,
just the broad strokes. I'd look at the Chrome extension documentation at
this point.

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