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gmid is a fast, small, and secure Gemini server. It uses libtls (a GREAT tls library from the OpenBSD folks) to serve static content and execute CGI scripts.

source code

GitHub mirror

You can fetch the code with git:

git clone https://git.omarpolo.com/gmid

or via the github mirror:

git clone https://github.com/omar-polo/gmid

The manpage is available at

gmid(1)

Features

(random order)

• reconfiguration: reload the running configuration without

• interruption

• sandboxed by default on OpenBSD, Linux and FreeBSD

• automatic redirect/error pages (see `block return`)

• IRI support (RFC3987)

• punycode support

• dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6)

• automatic certificate generation for config-less mode

• CGI scripts

• low memory footprint

• event-based asynchronous I/O model

• small codebase, easily hackable

• virtual hosts

• per-location rules

• optional directory listings

• configurable mime types

• chroot support

Future plans

This is mostly a TODO/wish list of things, just to get an idea of what I'm gonna do (and to remind to myself too).

• per-server (or even per-path?) logging

• different logging styles

• listen only on specific IPs

• customize error messages

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