Re: Gopher over TLS

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>]

> > > - Trying to get web browser support for `gopher:` scheme links. Need to
> > add
> > > it to the WHATWG HTML specification. Some interest was expressed by
> > > Mozillians; does anyone have Chromium contacts?
> > > https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5343
> >
> > Strictly speaking, this is actually already in Firefox because I begged and
> > pleaded, and they grandfathered it in. Without it OverbiteWX and OverbiteNX
> > wouldn't even work.
> 
> Yes, the aim is very similar to OverbiteWX. Without installing any browser
> extension. Also cross-browser compatible.
> 
> If gopher is whitelisted as a registerProtocolHandler protocol, users of
> web/http proxies will not need to install a browser extension. (Could still
> use the NX/Onyx concept to use a local proxy.)

This used to work. I don't know what regressed it.

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