[gopher] Introducing a new kind of Gopher Server

[James Mills]

Kevin,

You and I should come up with a sort-of a Gopher Application Spec
that other Gopher(d) can implement. My own Gopher(d) cgod isn't
your ordinary run-of-the-mill Gopher server either in the sense that
it's fully pluggable, supports dynamic resources, sessions and is built for
performance and scalability.

Implementing a proper to goodness application layer however
would be really cool and even cooler if we both came up with
a spec where we can write applications that work on many
Gopher(d) that implement it :)

Think WSGI for Gopher :)

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:

> Hello fellow Gopherites!
>
> I noticed something in the Gopher community on the types of Gopher servers
> available. They are all basically the same, nothing separates them apart
> from what language it's made in and how gopher menus are generated. They
> are feed files directly from a file system.
>
> I recently decided that if I were going to make a server, it wouldn't be
> just a server, but a full application framework. Welcome to my newest
> project: Gopher Application Framework!
>
> It is still a work in progress, missing many useful features. But I am
> planning on growing this into something nothing less than amazing. It will
> be heavily inspired by the Bottle micro framework, as you will see by the
> example application I have. It will support dynamic templating to make
> server-side templates of any text-based file a piece of cake. Unlike all
> other Gopher servers, this one doesn't fork external processes. Much like
> modern web frameworks, the application is always in memory. Don't worry
> about the memory footprint though, as it is inspired by the smallest web
> framework, it will only use a couple MB of ram.
>
> This project is still a huge work in progress, with a built-in HTTP server
> coming soon and many more amazing features. This isn't just your every day
> run of the mill gopher server.
>
> gopher://gopher.veroneau.net/1library/gaf
>
> The API is subject to change too, this is just an early preview version to
> let the community see what I'm up to.
>
> Enjoy!
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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