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

[Mike Hebel]

Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Mike,
>
>   
>>> Nice. I'll add your site to the new gophers list, and V-2 will seed  
>>> off of that. What would you like the display string to be?
>>>       
>> The Terminal Core is good.  (That's a FLCL reference for any anime  
>> fans out there.)
>>     
>
> You could make a second one called Terminal Dogma and get the NGE ones too.
> ;-)
>   

*grin*   Right now I'm full up on domain names though and being one of 
the many unemployed I can't afford to get another name.  But I do have 5 
statics...hmm... ;-)

> +ASK just describes a form, analogous to HTML <form>. You still have to have
> something on the other end listening. I am pretty sure pygopherd will allow
> a mole to receive +ASK arguments (bucktooth doesn't, but that's because I
> don't support gopher+ yet). Your mole could stick something in that file,
> but it would be better just to have the mole do the firewall gyrations or
> what have you.
>   

Given a choice I'd prefer not to have to do any firewall gyrations 
unless necessary.  My firewall is nice and stable right now so I don't 
want to screw with it.

I'm assuming the term mole is for a back-end script that pygopherd would 
pass data to?

I'm still having a bit of trouble wrapping my head around +ASK and 
gophermap stuff in general.  There doesn't seem to be a good 
step-by-step how-to out there but considering the clutter on the web 
finding anything Gopher related seems a bit difficult.

It also doesn't help that I'm very much a visual learner and have to 
interpolate text just to absorb data.

> 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.
>>     
>
> Adding that to the round tuit list :)
>   

I have a lot of those right now...

Find a job...finish my custom sonic screwdriver by the 15th...finish 
setting up my BIND servers...empty and re-configure the garden 
outside...build my zoneminder server...figure out why my Dallas one-wire 
weather unit is reporting massively wrong temps...yeah...just a few.  ;-)

-- 
Mike


Manamana!