## Geomyidae Hackathon

Geomyidae Hackathon

by 20h

## Please run geomyidae from source.

	% git clone git://bitreich.org/geomyidae
	% cd geomyidae
	% make
	% ./geomyidae -b $(pwd) -p 7070 -d

	% sacc gopher://localhost:7070

## Hackathon Goals

* Increase and optimize download speeds

* Write REST services of web services.

* As a separate talk:
	* Collaboratively work on a proposal by Evil_Bob to document the
	  modern way we use Gopher, as some addendum to the RFC.

## Download Speeds

Difficulty level: For people with C knowledge.

The download stuff in geomyidae is handled in ind.c:xsendfile.

This function needs to be optimized for speed.

See those links for how to do this in modern Linux:
	* https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html
	* https://ariadne.space/2022/07/17/how-efficient-can-cat1-be/

A simple benchmark is to dd some 4gb file and time the download.

## REST services

Difficulty level: It is just simple scripting in whatever you want.

Please see the geomyidae(8) manpage about DYNAMIC CONTENT, which tells
you which arguments are given to a cgi/dcgi script.

There is also a CGI.md file with details.

And you have examples in cgi-examples/ directory, especially the one
about the new REST feature.

Task: What is your most favourite website? Can you make it have an
interface over gopher today?

It is easy.
	
## Results

Please send your results to the IRC channel, so I can summarize them
and thank you.

Thanks to everyone contributing!


Comments and critique to:

	Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>