gmcapsule 0.2.5

Extensible Gemini/Titan server

GmCapsule is an extensible server for Gemini and Titan.

See the User manual for configuration and usage instructions.

Installation

Install "gmcapsule" via pip:

pip install gmcapsule

Then run the server daemon:

gmcapsuled

Running via systemd

Create the following service file and save it as ~/.config/systemd/user/gmcapsule.service:

[Unit]
Description=GmCapsule: extensible Gemini/Titan server
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=<YOUR-INSTALL-PATH>/gmcapsuled
Restart=always
Environment="PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1"
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=gmcapsule

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Replace <YOUR-INSTALL-PATH> with the actual path of gmcapsuled. pip will install it in a directory on your PATH.

Then you can do the usual:

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable gmcapsule.service
systemctl --user start gmcapsule

The log can be viewed via journalctl (or syslog):

journalctl -xe --user-unit=gmcapsule

Change log

v0.2

• Added [cgi] bin_root configuration option for automatically and dynamically mapping all executables in a directory tree to URL entry points.
• Minor documentation updates.
• Published on PyPi as "gmcapsule".

v0.2.1:

• Fixed error handling. Exceptions are now caught and the error message is printed.

v0.2.2:

• Reduced required Python version to 3.6 (f-strings).
• Added systemd instructions.

v0.2.3:

• Requests exceeding 1024 bytes should result in an error code and not just be ignored.
• Respond with an error code to malformed UTF-8 in the request.
• Verify that the port number in the request URI matches the server's port.

v0.2.4:

• Fixed an error in the Markdown parser.

v0.2.5:

• Fixed handling of exceptions from request handler, and print a traceback.
• Fixed importlib error with Python 3.11.

v0.1

• Initial public release.