[gopher] A Gopher noob and endless questions. ;-)

[Mike Hebel]

Hey all!  I've been fooling around with pygopherd after being  
introduced to Gopherspace a while back by a friend of mine.  ( My  
current server - gopher://www.terminalcore.net - NetBSD 3.0 Sparc64,  
Netra T105)

It's interesting stuff and in a lot of ways eminently better than FTP  
or certain other serving methods.  I like it also because it doesn't  
take up a lot of horsepower.

One thing I noticed is that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to  
make a front-end authentication page if you wanted part of your Gopher  
server to be secure.  (At least I didn't see a way.)

Can this be done with +ASK?  Does anybody have an example of using  
+ASK that doesn't make my head hurt?

I'm very much a Gopher noob but I've run other things in the past so  
I'm not too afraid of getting my hands dirty.  A little help?
--
Mike


"All we wanna do is eat your brains! We're not unreasonable, I mean no  
one's gonna eat your eyes." - Re: Brains, Jonathan Coultan