gemini protocol support

[fsiefken]

As gemini is more or less a spiritual successor to gopher and in line with the simplicity of text mode browsing perhaps it can be considered.
https://git.sr.ht/~kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini

[drawkula]

In a time when old browsers drop protocols and new browsers are not more than a single-protocol-network-file-pager, some browsers should stick to the old way browsers were thought: One frontend to view them all!

This does not mean that I like Gemini. I think it solves a problem that did not exist in the first place. But now that it exists, "a real browser in the good old spirt" should support it.

[rkd77]

gemini is on my wishlist. If someone does not provide some patches first, I'm going to add this protocol later this year to ELinks.

[rkd77]

Current master has some gemini protocol and text/gemini code. There are problems with certificates verification on some sites, I don't know why. You can disable it, or click Retry connection every time.
INPUT (codes 10 and 11) and CLIENT CERTIFCATES (>= 60) are not handled properly yet.

If spidermonkey is enabled, also might be some bugs.

To compile with gemini protocol support, add
-Dgemini=true
to meson invocation

[fsiefken]

Hi rdk77, that's great, thank you. I turned off 'verify certificates' in the connection options.
The one thing that is a bit annoying is that when you scroll/page to the end of gmi page the screen gets vertically padded with a white background while most if not all gemini pages are default with a black background and blue links so I set the default elinks desktop background to black in the "options manager" (User interface -> Color settings) as well.

[Moult]

Is it possible to use "search" queries in Gemini? Here's a search engine in Gemini which I can't get to work (other than manually editing the URL):

gemini://tlgs.one/

Here's the equivalent using a HTTP proxy where you can see it working:

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/tlgs.one/

[rkd77]

Passwords are not **********, but there is progress.