Re: OverbiteNX
> > However, I still don't like having to bounce gopher requests through
> > proxies for both privacy and efficiency reasons. A native TCP sockets
> > feature in Firefox would neatly solve the problem, but this would at least
> > get native connections even if a few more hoops are required.
> > [...]
>
> Maybe I missed something but would it not be feasible to use a gateway
> proxy on the end-user's system for gopher requests? What I'm thinking of
> is anything port 70 and/or gopher:// makes requests through the locally
> installed gateway which is some sort of lightweight www-to-gopher proxy
> written in something very portable. Experientially it would be like
> OverbiteWX but all installed on the end-user's machine.
In theory, this should work. In practice, Firefox, at least, doesn't have
a proxy option anymore, so you'd still need an extension to handle this
(so you might as well load the code into the browser).
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