From 42e81ee859eb0edb93248758a0d5d0260f8f79a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Solderpunk <solderpunk@sdf.org>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 21:20:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Don't assume a gopher-to-gemini proxy is running on localhost
 by default.

---
 av98.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/av98.py b/av98.py
index 3ae3f5c..bb530e2 100755
--- a/av98.py
+++ b/av98.py
@@ -251,9 +251,9 @@ class GeminiClient(cmd.Cmd):
             "debug" : False,
             "ipv6" : True,
             "timeout" : 10,
-            "gopher_proxy" : "localhost:1965",
             "width" : 80,
             "auto_follow_redirects" : True,
+            "gopher_proxy" : None,
         }
 
         self.log = {
@@ -280,6 +280,12 @@ class GeminiClient(cmd.Cmd):
         if gi.scheme in ("http", "https"):
             webbrowser.open_new_tab(gi.url)
             return
+        elif gi.scheme == "gopher" and not self.options.get("gopher_proxy", None):
+            print("""AV-98 does not speak Gopher natively.
+However, you can use `set gopher_proxy hostname:port` to tell it about a
+Gopher-to-Gemini proxy (such as a running Agena instance), in which case
+you'll be able to transparently follow links to Gopherspace!""")
+            return
         elif gi.scheme not in ("gemini", "gopher"):
             print("Sorry, no support for " + gi.scheme)
             return