[gopher] Re: "groxies"

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>]

> One other idea I had was allowing gopher to tunnel through HTTP as a method
> of getting around ignorant site administrators that block port 70. A HTTP
> groxy could accept GET requests to it in the same form an HTTP *P*roxy would,
> but would execute a gopher request on the other side and return the document
> with the right MIME type or application/gopher-menu as appropriate.

I should say, it would return it within an HTTP message body, e.g.,

GET gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1 HTTP/1.0
User-agent: sneaky-gopher-client
Connection: close

HTTP/1.0 200 Successfully Proxied
Content-type: application/gopher-menu
Content-length: ...
Server: prototype-groxy-baby/0.0

[gopher menu follows]

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