cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/55600767
Partying like it’s 1977!
I recently stumbled on the finger protocol through happynetbox and thought it was pretty cool, so I wrote a finger server that reads user data from text files. It’s a pretty simple protocol, but I think it’s a fun way to enable a simple smolnet-style status page :)
I mean, you can if you want. But the finger spec doesn’t actually specify a format for the returned data, so anything can be in there. Fingies just reads data from a text file and returns that. So
finger foo@serverwould just have fingies read the file named<data_dir>/fooand respond with whatever is in that file. It could be a real name, address, and phone number, or just a silly greeting.