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Attempting to connect to an IPv6 address or a DNS name that with only an AAAA record gives an "Unknown address type." error message.

Hi there. It doesn't look like this is too actively maintained, but since I am working on a similar project I thought I might be able to help out with GIF image display:

I had been having trouble with GIFs as well. The byte string was coming back from the server solidly, but I couldn't get it to display or download properly. I then tried a PNG and found that using PIL or Pillow (depending on python version) worked. The added bonus is that it will display ALL of your images pretty cleanly (including GIFs). So you can treat type 'g' and type 'I' files the same (as well as type 'p' which I found to be PNG on floodgap).

from PIL import Image, ImageTk
from io import BytesIO


def build_image(bytes_str):
    # pass the response string (as a bytes string)

    stream = BytesIO(bytes_str)
    print(type(stream))
    pil_image = Image.open(stream)
    tkimage = ImageTk.PhotoImage(pil_image)
    return tkimage



def show_image(data):
    # 'site_display' is a tk Text widget

    current_image = self.build_image(data)
    site_display.config(state=tk.NORMAL)
    site_display.delete(1.0, tk.END)
    site_display.image_create(tk.END, image = self.current_image)
    site_display.config(state=tk.DISABLED)

io is in the standard library, but you'll need to pip or easy_install pillow (which gets imported as PIL in python3).

Hopefully that is useful to you.

I have been having trouble with search for my project. I cannot find documentation anywhere for how an item type '7' expects the query to be transmitted. I looked at your code, but couldnt quite figure out what form a querystring is to take (or if it is actually a querystring?). Any help you can provide would be much appreciated!

Please add a possibility of choosing font(size), or perhaps zooming - the fonts are very, very small on a high dpi display.