Re: [gopher] Gophernicus 2.4 "Millennium Edition" released
In article <[🔎] o7rt7e$9uo$1@blaine.gmane.org>, mateusz-hSUp8W
+IdYRwwlOqo6u1QA@public.gmane.org says...
>While I'm not interested in TLS support myself (truly don't see the
> point)
Nor me, but if it's going to happen anyway, I do want to help steer it to
some sort of sane standard.
>An SSL-enabled client would need to try resolving the TXT record attached
>to the server's hostname. If found, it would scan it. If the TXT record
>would contain something like this...
>
> IN TXT "GTLS:433"
>
>...it would know that it's possible to connect to the same host on port
>TCP/433 and expect an SSL layer there, and automatically switch the url
>to gophers://hostname:433
I like this idea - it has a lot of merit, however some cheap DNS registrars
don't allow TXT records.
However, a backup to this could be:
gophers.<domain.name>
as a CNAME or A record.
Which a client could also query, and if it exists, uses that on the (IANA
approved) gopher-tls port.
-Matt
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