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Extensible Gemini/Titan server

Project description

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
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
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
systemctl --user start gmcapsule

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

journalctl -xe --user-unit=gmcapsule

Change log

v0.5

  • Added processes to the [server] section to configure how many request handler processes are started.
  • Extension modules can register new protocols in addition to the built-in Gemini and Titan.
  • SIGHUP causes the configuration file to be reloaded and workers to be restarted. The listening socket remains open, so the socket and TLS parameters cannot be changed.
  • API change: Extension modules get initialized separately in each worker thread. Instead of a Capsule, the extension module init method is passed a Context. Capsule is no longer available as global state.
  • API change: Identity no longer contains OpenSSL objects for the certificate and public key. Instead, they are provided as serialized in DER format.

v0.5.1:

  • Identity class is available when importing the gmcapsule module.

v0.5.2:

  • Fixed error in the "rewrite" module (Codeberg PR #1).

v0.4

  • Added built-in module "rewrite" that matches regular expressions against the request path and can rewrite the path or return a custom status for redirection, "Gone" messages, or other exceptional situations.
  • Extension module load order is determined after locating all modules from all directories. Previously, the order was local to each directory.
  • Added a new configuration section [priority] for overriding default module priorities determined from file names. This is useful for changing the priority of the built-in modules.

v0.4.1:

  • Rewrite: Request query string can be included in a status using the ${QUERY_STRING} variable.

v0.3

  • Added a shutdown event for custom background workers.
  • Request.query is None if there is no query string present. Previously, the query string was an empty string in this case. This allows making a distinction between empty and absent query strings.

v0.3.1:

  • CGI: Fixed handling of a missing query string.

v0.3.2:

  • GitView: Fixed processing of Git commit history when a message contains backslashes.

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.

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