Seeking for help with C Gemini client

- anridellal at yandex.ru
Wed Aug 19 16:03:29 BST 2020


I think I misread some parts of specification. Thank you very much.

On Wed, 19 Aug 2020 21:36:18 +1000
Paul Warren <pwarren at pwarren.id.au> wrote:

> G'day!
> 
> Gemini, while simple, isn't quite that simple. All protocol commands and
> responses are over TLS connections, so doing a send/recv on a raw
> network socket will not work!
> 
> I'm not 100% sure on the best or simplest way to get a TLS stack going
> in C, I've done some bits with OpenSSL, but it was not simple!
> 
> Cheers
> --
> Paul
> 
> 
> 
> On 19/8/20 11:57 pm, - wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've started writing a client for Gemini protocol, but since I've never been writing networking programs, I find myself at the dead end at the moment. Please could someone help me? When I send a request and get a response, the only thing I have in response is "gemini://" and nothing else. The code is given below:
> > 
> > #include <arpa/inet.h>
> > #include <locale.h>
> > #include <netdb.h>
> > #include <netinet/in.h>
> > #include <stdio.h>
> > #include <stdlib.h>
> > #include <string.h>
> > #include <sys/types.h>
> > #include <sys/socket.h>
> > #include <unistd.h>
> > 
> > #define STATUS_CODE_INPUT 10
> > #define STATUS_CODE_SENSITIVE_INPUT 11
> > #define STATUS_CODE_SUCCESS 20
> > #define STATUS_CODE_REDIRECT_TEMP 30
> > #define STATUS_CODE_REDIRECT_PERM 31
> > #define STATUS_CODE_TEMP_FAILURE 40
> > #define STATUS_CODE_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE 41
> > #define STATUS_CODE_CGI_ERROR 42
> > #define STATUS_CODE_PROXY_ERROR 43
> > #define STATUS_CODE_SLOW_DOWN 44
> > #define STATUS_CODE_PERM_FAILURE 50
> > #define STATUS_CODE_NOT_FOUND 51
> > #define STATUS_CODE_GONE 52
> > #define STATUS_CODE_PROXY_REQUEST_REFUSED 53
> > #define STATUS_CODE_BAD_REQUEST 59
> > #define STATUS_CODE_CLIENT_CERT_REQUIRED 60
> > #define STATUS_CODE_CERT_NO_AUTH 61
> > #define STATUS_CODE_CERT_NOT_VALID 62
> > 
> > #define GEMINI_PORT 1965
> > 
> > int main() {
> > 	char *locale;
> > 	locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
> > 	
> > 	int sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
> > 	if (sockfd < 0) {
> > 		perror("socket");
> > 		exit(1);
> > 	}
> > 	char *url = malloc(sizeof(char)*1024);
> > 	strcpy(url, "gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/\r\n");
> > 	char rec_buf[1029] = {0};
> > 	struct hostent *host_entry;
> > 	host_entry = gethostbyname(url);
> > 	struct sockaddr_in addr;
> > 	addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
> > 	addr.sin_port = htons(GEMINI_PORT);
> > 	addr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
> > 	int opt = 1;
> > 	if (setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, &opt, sizeof(opt)) < 0) {
> > 		perror("setsockopt");
> > 		exit(1);
> > 	}
> > 	if (bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0) {
> > 		perror("bind");
> > 		exit(2);
> > 	}
> > 	if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)) < 0) {
> > 		perror("connect");
> > 		exit(3);
> > 	}
> > 	send(sockfd, url, sizeof(url), 0);
> > 	recv(sockfd, rec_buf, sizeof(rec_buf), 0);
> > 	printf("%s\n", rec_buf);
> > 	close(sockfd);
> > 	shutdown(sockfd, SHUT_RDWR);
> > 	free(url);
> > 	return 0;
> > }
> > 
> > 
> 


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