On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 22:15:37 +0100, Daniel wrote: > Lesser used protocols not known by many in the mainstream. Such as: > > gopher, gemini, finger, spartan, titan, etc. > > An example of use, here's a weather service tied to a finger. Put your > city name as the user. This isn't mine, but it is inspiring. Example: > > finger mi...@graph.no > > For all options, go to the help finger: > > finger h...@graph.no
Thanks. Interesting. I was surprised a Norwegian site would have data for a small city in the US. I have a Python script that accesses the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) API and the data in the Meteogram appears to match well. fwiw, all that does is observation_url = f"https://api.weather.gov/stations/K{grid_id}/ observations/latest" response = requests.get(observation_url).json() using the Python 'requests' package and then parsing out the JSON. Implementing finger probably would be a straight socket connection. I don't know how useful this is: https://pypi.org/project/pyfinger/ I assume gopher is fron the archie, veronica, and jughead days. It appears straightforward. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1436 It's another use of a simple socket connection. https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sockets.html You may be able to gleam something from https://sr.ht/~lioploum/offpunk/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
