[gopher] Re: Heads up

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> Sorry, I was mixing two concepts in one email.  Is interactivity (user
> input displays, etc) possible with gopher, or does it require gopher+?

I believe it is possible in a very limited fashion with gopher0 but
that ASK blocks and the like require gopher+.

In practice, I believe that for most things that you might consider
interactivity in gopher for, you might prefer HTTP and CGI.

Incidentally: there may be other ways to do interactivity than this sort of input.

For instance, maybe you want a gopher to NNTP gateway.  You could
write a simple gopher server that listens on a high port.  It could
generate all its content on the fly based on conversations with the
NNTP backend somewhere -- the gopher "directories" could be listings
of groups, or messages in the groups.

-- John