Python 3 library for building Gopher clients and servers
Project description
Pituophis
Python 3 library for building Gopher clients and servers
Pituophis, at the moment, requires nine modules: os, re, sockets, asyncio, ssl, mimetypes, glob, and urllib, which are standard in most Python 3.7 installations, and natsort. Pituophis can simply be loaded as a module like this:
import pituophis
Client
Pituophis can grab files and text from Gopher servers (both S/Gopher TLS and regular Gopher) through the Request.get()
and get()
functions.
Examples
Getting menus and files as plain text:
pituophis.get('gopher.floodgap.com').text()
pituophis.get('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/').text()
pituophis.get('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/0/gopher/proxy').text()
pituophis.get(host='gopher.floodgap.com', port=70, path='/').text()
pituophis.get(host='gopher.floodgap.com', port=70, path='/gopher/proxy').text()
pituophis.get(host='khzae.net', port=105, path='/', tls=True).text() # TLS!
pituophis.get('gophers://khzae.net:105/1/').text() # gophers:// URLs!
Getting a menu, parsed:
menu = pituophis.get('gopher.floodgap.com').menu()
for selector in menu:
print(selector.type)
print(selector.text)
print(selector.path)
print(selector.host)
print(selector.port)
Using search services:
pituophis.get('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/7/v2/vs?toast').text()
pituophis.get(host='gopher.floodgap.com', port=70, path='/v2/vs', query='toast').text()
Downloading a binary:
pituophis.get('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/9/gopher/clients/win/hgopher2_3.zip').binary
pituophis.get(host='gopher.floodgap.com', port=70, path='/gopher/clients/win/hgopher2_3.zip').binary
Requests can also be created and worked with directly:
import pituophis
req = pituophis.Request()
req.host = 'gopher.floodgap.com' # set to 127.0.0.1 by default
req.port = 70 # set to 70 as default, as per tradition
req.type = '7' # set to 9 by default, purely for client usage
req.path = '/v2/vs' # set to '/' by default
req.query = 'food' # set to '' (nothing) by default
req.tls = False # set to False by default
print('Getting', req.url())
rsp = req.get()
print(rsp.text())
They can also be created from a URL:
import pituophis
req = pituophis.parse_url('gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/7/v2/vs?food')
print('Getting', req.url())
rsp = req.get()
print(rsp.text())
Server
Default Handler
Pituophis now lets you serve a directory. Serving gophermaps, directories, and files is supported out of the box.
Custom Handler
Pituophis also lets you write a custom handler for Gopher requests.
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