icmdline.txt - gopher-tutorials - The gopher tutorials project.	Err	bitreich.org	70
hgit clone git://bitreich.org/gopher-tutorials/ git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/gopher-tutorials/	URL:git://bitreich.org/gopher-tutorials/ git://enlrupgkhuxnvlhsf6lc3fziv5h2hhfrinws65d7roiv6bfj7d652fid.onion/gopher-tutorials/	bitreich.org	70
1Log	/scm/gopher-tutorials/log.gph	bitreich.org	70
1Files	/scm/gopher-tutorials/files.gph	bitreich.org	70
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i     1 Dear reader, in this document we will see differents command line	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     2 software which can be used to connect to a gopher server.	Err	bitreich.org	70
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i     5 Printf + netcat	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     6 ===============	Err	bitreich.org	70
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i     8 It's possible to write request "by hand" using printf to format the	Err	bitreich.org	70
i     9 request string and then netcat to send it to the remote server.	Err	bitreich.org	70
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i    11 A request of the file "/tutorials/cmdline.txt" will looks like this :	Err	bitreich.org	70
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i    13     printf "/tutorials/cmdline.txt\r\n" | nc somedomain.com 70	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    14 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    15 You will get the server answer directly into your output. Be careful	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    16 if you ask binary files, it will be displayed on your screen, this is	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    17 not something a regular user want. If you want to download a binary	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    18 file, you can redirect the output to a file using ">" or pipe it to	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    19 another software (or using tee for both at the same time).	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    20 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    21 The following example will download a music file, save it on the	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    22 filesystem and play it with mpv while downloading.	Err	bitreich.org	70
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i    24     printf "/some_music.ogg\r\n" | nc somedomain.com 70 \	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    25         | tee saved_music.ogg | mpv -	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    26 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    27 You may have seen that the data type is not part of the request	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    28 string, this is because it is only useful for the client to decide how	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    29 to handle the content. In the current case, the client is YOU, so if	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    30 you ask a menu and you want to download a file which has been tagged	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    31 with type "I" then you should use the right process to deal with an	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    32 image file.	Err	bitreich.org	70
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i    35 Curl	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    36 ====	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    37 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    38 It is possible to use curl to connect to a gopher server, most of its	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    39 options are supported, like timeout or traffic shaping. You need to	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    40 pass a full url with "gopher://" at the start to curl to tell it you	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    41 want to request a gopher server.	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    42 	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    43 By default, curl will output the server result to stdout. Explanations	Err	bitreich.org	70
i    44 can be found in the previous section about this.	Err	bitreich.org	70
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