Re: [gopher] Gophernicus 2.4 "Millennium Edition" released
> On 04 Feb 2017, at 12:11, Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com> wrote:
>
>> The only remaining problem is to figure out a way to tell which connections
>> are TLS and which are plaintext in gopher menus. Alternative is not to
>> change menus at all and require the clients to read caps.txt first to see
>> if there is a non-zero ServerTLSPort available for encrypted connections.
>> That might actually be the most backwards-compatible method.
>
> That would certainly seem the most reasonable approach to me.
I agree. I tried to come up with a way to add some kind of "encrypted or not" flag in the menus... but the existing servers and clients out there are *so* broken that I couldn't come up with a way that would not break things.
Oh well. Some day I'll try to patch Lynx or something to work with gopher over TLS.
- Kim
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