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gopher-get

A simple Gopher client to download a page/resource over the Gopher protocol, written in Go.

This client is adapted from the example client from the https://github.com/prologic/go-gopher package.

Features

• Download a gopher page to a specified location
• Prints a description of the item type
• Erm thats it

Usage

gopher-get <url> <outputfile>

Flags

-json    if content is a gophermap, output json

Todo

Possible features to come:

• allow stream content to stdout
• add -o for output file
• maybe remove json option
• move display of item type to stderr
• add download abandoning if content exceeds a size/timeout threshold