Proxying

[Jason McBrayer]

"Solderpunk" <solderpunk at posteo.net> writes:

> For people like me who often read something in Gemini/Gopherspace,
> then want to reference a few days later but cannot remember where they
> read it, a proxy which maintained full-text search of everything
> visited in the past month or so would be *super* handy, but I have no
> idea how to build such a thing.

I wrote such a thing for HTTP 1.0 back around 2000. The performance was
terrible, and it quickly became obsolete (I wasn't up to implementing
HTTP 1.1 features like chunked transfer at the time), and the spread of
SSL put a final nail in its coffin. But it was fun at the time.

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