RE: Linux command line Gopher+ client

[Matt Owen <matt@jaruzel.com>]

Hi Wolfgang, welcome to the list!

I'm intrigued by your Gopher-over-HTTP concept:

http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/gopher/gopher-by-http.html

I like the idea, as it does open up to being able to server gopher style content using a normal web server. It does raise the issue of backwards compatibility though; I would like to suggest that you think about refining the idea to _only_ support gopher over HTTP if the selectors in the gophermap file specify port 80 explicitly:

/path/file.txt:80

This would enable existing clients to be updated, without breaking the core protocol.

-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Wolfgang Zekoll <wzk@quietsche-entchen.de> 
Sent: 11 August 2021 19:23
To: gopher-project@other.debian.org
Subject: Linux command line Gopher+ client

Hello Gopher List,

my name is Wolfgang (I guess you already got that the mail header) and this is my first post here.  I'm an old Gopher user (both meanings) with a recently regained interest in Gopher.  Well, to be correct it is not Gopher but Gopher+.

I have been looking for a Gopher+ client but couldn't find one.
(Perhaps I should have done more research for it). So I have been working on _gc_ - a command line client for Linux. It is a mixture between a working client and a prototyping test-bed.  You can read about and download it from

   http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/gopher/readme.html

Comments are welcome.

Regards,
Wolfgang