[gopher] Question about using Gopher for P2P file transfer instead of HTTP
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In IRC and a surprisingly large number of other supposedly P2P
applications, file transfer is negotiated with the P2P protocol, and
then served with lighttpd and retrieved with curl.
It seems like a good thing to reconsider this, and switch to gopher.
My idea is that gopher can be used for caching and "last-mile"
delivery while BitTorrent, or a similar swarming protocol, is used for
content distribution. This separation of distribution and last-mile
delivery is a compromise between repository designs with mirrors, and
a fully distributed system such as apt-bittorrent, which may put more
strain on international 10GigE links.
The reason I'm worried about a better software repository system is
because mirror servers are expensive, and so is paying through the
nose for a commercial content distribution network. I can afford
neither. So, I'm turning to serverless solutions, as I'm sure many
after me will do as well. As hitting many bittorrent or other swarm
files many times in succession can take time to warm up, using gopher
as a final delivery seems like a reasonable and incredibly fast way to
deliver software repository packages.
I wonder how difficult it would be to implement a gopher server and
gopher client? I would only need it as a command line application, and
mostly the library behind it. Libgopher and libgopherd?
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