Re: web

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netremove.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-01-16, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
In comp.misc Ivan Shmakov wrote:
On 2025-01-12, Bozo User wrote:

 

Once you get a Gopher/Gemini browser, among yt-dlp, the web can go away.

 
       I. e., my point being: you can't escape web by switching to
       Gopher, because Gopher /is/ web.  (Even if 'darker' part of it.)
 

While I do appreciate the availability of yt-dlp, I feel like a
huge part of the reason Chromium is huge is so it can support
Youtube.  Granted, there doesn't seem to be as many DSAs for video
software (codecs and players), but it's still the kind of software
I'd rather keep at least in a container.

 

You fear that a hacker can upload a YouTube video containing
an exploit and manage to pass that exploit through YouTube's
transcoding in order to attack Linux video player programs?
Seems like a big stretch to me.

 
       I'm not familiar with how Youtube processes its videos; I've
       never even uploaded anything there myself, much less looked at
       their sources for security issues that might or might not be
       there.

The files I download from YouTube always contain the metadata
string (in both audio and video streams):
"ISO Media file produced by Google Inc."

But I always use the lowest quality option.

By the by, what's the equivalent of wget(1) for gopher:?

 

Curl supports Gopher.  Not Gemini though.

 
       Curl is my tool of choice for doing API calls; say (JFTR, [2]
       has a couple of complete examples):
 
$ curl -iv --form-string comment="New file." \
   -F file=@my.jpeg -F text=\</dev/fd/5 5< my.jpeg.mw \
   --form-string filesize="$(wc -c < my.jpeg)" \
   --form-string token="1337cafe+\" \
   ... -- https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php\
"?action=upload&format=xml&assert=user"
 
[2] http://am-1.org/~ivan/src/examples-2024/webwatch.mk
 
       However, I distinctly recall finding it inadequate as a mirroring
       tool back in the day.  (Though that might've changed meanwhile.)

That's true, Curl doesn't do mirroring. Command-line options may
exist, but one I'm aware of is that the Gopherus Gopher client
since version 1.2 has the feature "all files from current folder
can be downloaded by pressing F10". Not comparable to Wget's
recursive mode, but enough for some tasks.

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