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Re: Setting default server



On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Christoph Lohmann wrote:

Greetings,

On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 18:38:50 +0100 David Griffith <dave@661.org> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2018, Christoph Lohmann wrote:
I have added a workaround at /Software/Gopher to present the gopher+ re‐
direct in geomyidae now too. You should be redirected to the root of go‐
pherproject.org  now.  gopher(1)  was sending no hint of expecting a go‐
pher+ reply when requesting its default host. The default host  is  com‐
piled into the kernel. If you recompile just use some alternative gopher
client.

What is the workaround you added?  Is there still a way to set the default
page in $HOME/.gopherrc or /etc/gopherrc?

I  added  the link mentioned in the thread below to have a redirect from
gopher+ to gopher at gopherproject.org. You can configure your local go‐
pher(1) to your will in gopherrc.

For setting it in the gopherrc the syntax seems to be specified via set‐
ting »home:«. You can read the details of the following lines in the GS‐
fromLink() function in GSgopherobj.c.

As  Kim  said, gopher(1) is not backwards compatible to gopher+. Gopher+
is a really ugly and not really thought out protocol. Only people  using
the  original  client  will  see the redirect until people have switched
over to saner clients like sacc(1).

I still like the look and feel of the standard gopher(1) client. Is there some way to add gopher+ support to it?

--
David Griffith
dave@661.org

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