From 9485184017516be81fc80502875e6d36f09d420e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: eyedeekay <hankhill19580@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:40:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] create a meta-listerner softfork

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-# go-gitlooseleaf
+# go-gittisane
+A soft-fork of gitea with support for running as an I2P service. Just the mod and the CI files.
+
+How it works:
+=============
+
+This uses GitHub CI to continuously build an I2P-only version of Gitea based on the latest release of Gitea.
+We can do this without requiring a patch to the Gitea source code.
+This is because Gitea encapsulates its "Listening" and "Dialing" into functions, which can easily be substituted for alternative versions.
+For instance, the network listener is set up by a function, `graceful.GetListener() (net.Listener, error)` in the file `modules/graceful/server.go`. 
+The default implementation of the `GetListener() (net.Listener, error)` function, `DefaultGetListener() (net.Listener, error)` is defined in the `modules/graceful/net_unix.go` for Unix-like systems and `modules/graceful/net_windows.go` for Windows-like systems.
+A developer who wishes to "Mod" gitea to listen on another kind of connection do so by creating a new file which implements a `GetListener() (net.Listener, error)` function using an alternate listener implementation.
+
+On the client side, the same thing is possible because Go allows you to substitute the underlying transports used for the default HTTP Client.
+So, in the absence of overriding settings, we can configure it to use SAMv3 to build HTTP connections by default using the same keys as the hidden service.
+Effectively this is like a "Bidirectional HTTP" tunnel in Java's Hidden Service Manager.
+
+Finally, if you need to include additional libraries, run `go mod tidy` in the root of the gitea checkout to include them.
+
+Here is a complete working example mod:
+
+```Go
+// copy this file to modules/graceful/net_anon.go before building gitea
+package graceful
+
+import (
+	"net"
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/go-i2p/onramp"
+)
+
+// First, make sure that the onramp.Garlic API is set up:
+var garlic, i2perr = onramp.NewGarlic("gitea-anon", "127.0.0.1:7656", onramp.OPT_DEFAULTS)
+
+// This implements the GetListener function for I2P. Note the exemption for Unix sockets, which is implemented in net_anon_unix.go and net_anon_windows.go
+func I2PGetListener(network, address string) (net.Listener, error) {
+	// Add a deferral to say that we've tried to grab a listener
+	defer GetManager().InformCleanup()
+	switch network {
+	case "tcp", "tcp4", "tcp6", "i2p", "i2pt":
+		return garlic.Listen()
+	case "unix", "unixpacket":
+		// I2P isn't really a replacement for the stuff you use Unix sockets for and it's also not an anonymity risk, so treat them normally
+		unixAddr, err := net.ResolveUnixAddr(network, address)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return GetListenerUnix(network, unixAddr)
+	default:
+		return nil, net.UnknownNetworkError(network)
+	}
+}
+
+// We use `init() to ensure that the I2P Listeners and Dialers are correctly placed at runtime`
+func init() {
+	if i2perr != nil {
+		panic(i2perr)
+	}
+	GetListener = I2PGetListener
+	httpClient := &http.Client{
+		Transport: &http.Transport{
+			Dial: garlic.Dial,
+		},
+	}
+
+	http.DefaultClient = httpClient
+	http.DefaultTransport = httpClient.Transport
+}
+
+```
+
+Caveats
+-------
+
+Gitea makes a few other kinds of connections, besides `HTTP`, if instructed to do so in the config file.
+For instance, there is an SMTP client.
+This is not anonymized in this configuration.
+Probably ask Postman if it's OK to use `127.0.0.1:7659/7660`.
+Similarly, SSH client connections are not anonymized in this configuration.
+Similar adjustments to the configuration can be made to also route these across I2P but aren't documented here at this time.
+
+License
+-------
+
+Both this mod and gitea are licensed under the MIT license.
+See LICENSE for net_anon*.go in this repository.
+LICENSE-gitea.md is a copy of the Gitea license from https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
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