Gemini is an alternative to gopher and the web, taking the best of both and putting it into one protocol.
Using acme is fun. And as much as I like using the mouse, I couldn't stand the extra dependencies some of the graphical clients out there for gemini. So I wrote my own for acme.
This just uses standard POSIX tools and programs that were installed by plan9port, so that makes the latter the only requirement.
Just run sudo make. I will possibly use mk in the future but it doesn't seem to be needed.
Finally, add the following to $HOME/lib/plumbing:
# gemini links without a path or port type is text data matches 'gemini://([a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]+[a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+)/?' plumb to web plumb start gacme $0'/' $1 '/' # gemini links without a path but with a port type is text data matches 'gemini://([a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]+[a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+):([0-9]+)/?' plumb to web plumb start gacme $0'/' $1 '/' $2 # gemini links with a path but no port type is text data matches 'gemini://([a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]+[a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+)/(.*)' plumb to web plumb start gacme $0 $1 $2 # gemini links with a path and a port type is text data matches 'gemini://([a-zA-Z0-9_\-.]+[a-zA-Z0-9_@\-]+):([0-9]+)/(.*)' plumb to web plumb start gacme $0 $1 $3 $2 include basic Licenced under the GNU GPL v3+
- do proper TOFU authentication
- publishing your own certs for servers that use them
- Some sites won't connect due to the TLS certificate generateed. Openssl is a bitch when it comes to TOFU authentication. And
gnutls-clidoesn't seem to understand the meaning of "Trust On First Use."
My email is in the git logs. Contact me there for any questions or contributions that you might have.