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

[Kim Holviala]

On 2010-04-07 18:16, Mike Hebel wrote:

>> And, of course, Gopher over TLS or
>> SSL has been proposed but not ever, to my knowledge, implemented.
>
> I'm not really looking for secure Gopher but TLS/SSL would indeed rock.

TLS was one of the things I originally planned for Gophernicus Server, 
but I kinda dropped the idea because I didn't think anyone would be 
interested.

SSL (not TLS) is actually really simple with any inetd-compatible 
server; just run the daemon with stunnel instead of inetd. Done.

TLS requres support in the server itself, and doing it with inetd is 
kinda stupid because inetd launches a server process per connection and 
initalizing TLS is slooooow. With regular daemonized servers TLS becomes 
easy because you only have to init it once.

Or, that's what the big boys told me. I might try doing TLS one of these 
days just to see whether the initialization really is that slow.


- Kim