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Re: Simple URL scheme handler library

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Andrew T. <and4y2@turnquist.name.invalid> wrote:
> I've been playing with gemini for a while now (a year or two?).  In
> some of my spare time I've been working on a C/ncurses based browser
> (using gmi100 as a starting point), which I hope to release in some
> form soon.

Cool, looking forward to that! I've found that I want to do less GUI
and go back to good old console for more and more.

> So I wrote a very small library to look up handlers in a file,
> /etc/schemecap, similar to the MIME /etc/mailcap file.  Now, if my
> gemini client finds a non-gemini URL, it can find what to hand it off
> to.
> 
> I've since found that xdg-open does something similar, but is
> restricted to use in a desktop environment and not terminals/consoles,
> so it might not be ideal for an ncurses client that might be running
> without X or Wayland.

  ...

> I've released this under the MIT license in hopes of wider adoption.

I was trying to remember what we had back in the day for this, and it
probably was mailcap. I just checked the one on my laptop, and it's
all `xdg-open` as you say, so indeed not very useful for terminal
applications.

Cheers,

Koen

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