Re: Gopher over TLS
It was thus said that the Great Emil Engler once stated:
> Hi, I thought about writing a standard for a secure Gopher protocol
> (short gophers).
> Have there been any proposals for this yet and what's the general
> consensus about this on this ML
I wrote about this on my blog last year:
http://boston.conman.org/2019/03/31.1
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/03/31.1
Summary: I don't think it's practical. Even with the "peek the stream to
see the TLS handshake" would require updating all gopher servers at the
least.
-spc
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