how to make an input field on a capsule page ?

[Omar Polo]

bussiere bussiere <bussiere at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'am looking to make an input field on a gemini capsule page like the gemini search engine,
>
> but i've read the gemtext doc and i cannot find how to do that ...
>
> can you point me to some doc on how to do this ?
>
> regards

text/gemini doesn't have anything like a text input.  Instead, you put a
link to a page that replies with the 10 or 11 status code and that will
make the browser showing a text field and send what the user typed as
query part of the url.

Using geminispace.info as example, they provide a link "search" that
looks like this:

	=> /search Search

When the server receives a request for ``/search'' it replies with 10:

	% printf "gemini://geminispace.info/search\r\n" | \
		nc -c -Tnoverify geminispace.info 1965
	10 Search query
	%

usually browser will pop up a text field in this case, and then visit
the page

	/search?<user query here>

So, if you search for "kittens" the browser will visit the page

	gemini://geminispace.info/search?kittens


HTH

Omar Polo