[gopher] Opera browser; gopher proxy
Hello list!
My web-browser of choice is Opera, and sadly it misses gopher
support, unacceptable as it is.
So I tried to remedy the situation: first by investigating the
possibility of porting one of the Overbite extensions or writing my own
for Opera. Turned out, no user javascript gets executed for non
http(s):// links in that browser, so there wasn't any good possibility
to hook it up to the uri scheme.
However, Opera still sports the old-school "proxy servers"
configuration dialog with gopher being one of the protocol to
distinguish.
Initially, I assumed that services like floodgap provided such
functionality, but it turned out, they are just web-sites, not actual
proxies. I then learned about Squid Proxy Server, which does indeed
provide what I needed. But Squid is a bit of overkill for such a simple
task :/
And so I wrote my own implementation (lamely using php on top of a
webserver I already had running) which I've been using for quite some
time now.
You can test it with a compatible browser (I think Opera is the last
one to support gopher proxies) by using mindloop.net , port 80 . It
looks like newer versions of Opera removed the config dialog,
but the options are still accessible throu an ini-file:
[Proxy]
Use GOPHER=1
Gopher server=mindloop.net:80
I figure this information could be useful.
I also would LOVE to have floodgap and other gopher proxy-sites to add
such functionality, so I would be able to use them directly with my
browser.
Here's my horrible, non-RFC complaint (URL mapping is wrong) code for
reference.
gopher://mindloop.net/0/~sobak/proxy/gopher.php
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