[ANN] Announcing Molly Brown, a Gemini server in Go

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Sun Jan 12 15:31:39 GMT 2020
Happy 2020, Gemininauts!

As I mentioned previously and briefly on this list, over at
https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/molly-brown I am working on a Gemini
server of my own, named (The Unsinkable) Molly Brown.  Molly for
short is just fine!

The server is written in Go and is intended to be a fully featured
server, implementing all aspects of the protocol.  This is a very
deliberate decision to force me to be personally aware of the
implementation difficulty involved in everything that gets specced.

Molly is also designed to function in a multi-user environment, such as
a public access unix server, where individual users have no access to
the main server configuration file and hence need some other way to
control features such as redirection or certificate requirements.  None
of this is implemented yet, but I plan to use .molly files, similar to
the .htaccess files used by Apache.  I'm very open to other ideas,
though, if anybody has any.

Molly Brown is now powering the site at gemini.circumlunar.space (which
previously ran JetForce).

Cheers,
Solderpunk


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