https://github.com/kibook/bucky

Bucktooth HTTP proxy
https://github.com/kibook/bucky

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Bucktooth HTTP proxy

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/kibook/bucky
• Owner: kibook
• Created: 2016-12-05T17:45:39.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-11-25T14:07:30.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T05:06:41.594Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: gopher
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://khzae.net/1/bucky
• Size: 44.9 KB
• Stars: 6
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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README

        
Bucky is a CGI-based Gopher <-> HTTP proxy utility, primarily for

the Bucktooth Gopher server. It runs on top of an existing HTTP

server to provide access to your Bucktooth Gopherhole via HTTP.

Bucky may use buckd's -isproxy feature rather than opening sockets

and connecting to buckd like a gopher client, however it may also

connect over sockets, and thus is compatible with other Gopher

servers as well.

It takes a QUERY_STRING in the form of "#/SELECTOR", where # is

the Gopher item type of the resource. For resources like menus or

search results, it builds an HTML version.

Running as a normal CGI script, requests may look like:

  http://mysite.com/bucky.cgi?0/mytextfile.txt

which would request /mytextfile.txt from the Gopher server,

displaying it in plain text. If your HTTP server can "rewrite"

requests (such as Apache's mod_rewrite), Bucky can be told to

masquerade links appropriately such that Gopher-URI-like requests are

handled by the Gopher server and Bucky transparently. For example:

  http://mysite.com/0/mytextfile.txt

could be accompished under Apache mod_rewrite with rules like:

  RewriteRule "^/$" "/bucky.cgi"

  RewriteRule "^/(.)/(.*)$" "/bucky.cgi?$1/$2"

and USE_REWRITE + REWRITE_ROOT will tell Bucky how to build

appropriate URLs for all links. (see comments under USE_REWRITE

and REWRITE_ROOT in config.h)