I worked pretty hard today, and it got a bit late, but I finished up what I
set out to do, and I think I did it the right way too, so I'm looking forward
to sharing it, though I know there will be comments, and that it is not the
greatest thing in the universe that I made, but it's better than what we had
before, and it's a start, something allow us to gain more experience.
It's still fun! Though, I've written everything for 80 column, I now learn that
some clients are incompatible with that.. I should have known, my C64 for
example. Well, I don't know how this formats on a C64, I guess I will find out
some time. I'm thinking about adding a feature to my gopher server, it still
does not have a name.. It's just called server.js.. I should come up with a name
preferrably something related to animals and teeth.. The feature I want to add,
is the possibility of serving hand-crafted goher menus if they exist in a dir.
Maybe if a file called menu.gopher exist, then that should be used instead of
the auto-generated index. I added another feature yesterday evening, a tagwall,
it's kind of a hack, because it's using the search feature of gopher, which was
not meant for this, afaik. It's very simple, and only checks that the string
being sent is not already written (to avoid unintentional spam by clients that
resend the search string when going through history). A more robust version
would also do ip-based limiting, but I doubt it will see much abuse, and if it
does, I'll just shut it down. I've found the gopher protocol being so simple,
that I believe I can do a better job of writing a protocol library than the
one I'm using, which is basically just a crippeled raw socket.
I am thinking about making a BBS portal into my webspace, it's all text anyway.
It'd be cool to be able to support connection via telnet, and maybe even dialup,
though I'm not sure how I can support that? The telephone line in my home is
actually a ip->pots bridge, and my router has an ip telephony client, and a
rj11 plug, but I wonder if any data transfer can survive the compression.
It is something to try. A telnet portal could also have chat and be a lot more
interactive. I don't know which codeset I should support though..
Maybe there is some lowest common denominator.. I'd like to support both PC and
Commodore64 at least.
I need some hours of downtime now. I got Stardew Valley working well with a
program called keystick and my Logitech Rumblepad 2, but I forgot to save the
layout, so I will recreate it and go play a bit now. First though, I will make
a custom skin for it so the program becomes easier to setup.
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