[gopher] Re: Gopher+ Suggestion

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 06:35:48AM -0700, R. Cooley wrote:

> My single problem with gopher, is that the hostname and ports are 
> static.  So, if I am running gopherd on a private network, and making 
> the gopherd port available to the outside, both the hostname and the 
> port must be the same on the private network, as well as ouside the 
> private network.  This is often not the case.  In fact, that is the very 
> issue keeping me from running a gopher server.

Hmm, I'm not quite sure I follow you.  Gopher selectors do indeed support
specifying a port.  If you run a gopherd on, say, port 2280, you can specify
port 2280 in the selectors.  If on the inside it shows up as 2270, you could
just run a second gopherd instance for the inside, making sure to say Port=+
in your .Links files.

Other than that, I'm not sure that this is a problem different than HTTP
servers face?  Perhaps I'm missing something here.

Thanks,
John

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