ttserver

What ?

 ttserver is a simple TCP server allowing to:

• serve content over custom connection handlers:
  • finger and gopher protocols' handlers included
  • a basic page renderer supporting:
    • Go templates
    • caching
    • fetching remotes contents
• define generic routes with regex
• fetch remote contents (json, html, feeds) and display them in pages
• run cron tasks to create/update pages
• server content over TLS with the support of the ACME protocol (Let’s Encrypt)
• gather stats about the server on a Prometheus compatible endpoint, /metrics
• handle PROXY protocol

Why ?

I really like the idea to be able to have a Gopher and a finger spaces to serve contents.

If you want to know more about my motivations:

• lynx gopher://gopher.t18s.fr/1/about/server
• finger about/server@finger.t18s.fr

I tried to have both running for some times now but it’s not easy to find tools that support all the above features.

So I wrote ttserver.

What have I learned ?

My skills in Go improved a lot (Go routines, templates, etc.).

And I’ve started to use

• super-linter
• golangci-lint
• GitHub Actions

I also wrote a GitHub Actions to handle checksums and signatures: ghaction-checksum-sign-artifact.