is anybody listening?

https://textprotocol.org/

I'd link to their text:// URL, but afaict, it doesn't work.

someone had added themselves to the finger ring and by looking at their finger response, I found a text:// URI, so I finally got to actually test against a live server.

mk's server

So I followed the architecture of the pretty bad geminiclient I have, and wrote one to work with textprotocol.

Just about the the time I was finishing up, mk's server stopped responding.

A couple things I noticed, URIs in text/protocol are supposed to be "absolute", "normalized", and "fully qualified", but mk's server was returning relative URIs. By the time I noticed that, I'd already written my client to handle these anyway. Postel's law and what not, I'm gonna leave it that way.

I also rewrote the text/plain response that textproto servers say they're responding with, with a text/protocol, just so my own other scripts can recognize that lines that start with => may require extra processing before being shown to the user. (me)

If anyone knows of any other live text:// servers, please let me know.

I'm likely to make my own textprotocol server so I have something to test my client against.