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

[Mike Hebel]

Mike Hebel wrote:
> Kim Holviala wrote:
>> 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.
>
> So how does Gopher deal with that?  How does the client recognize 
> there's a gopher protocol in the SSL stream?

Reading up on stunnel I'm now a little more confused.  Though I now 
understand how you could do the Gopher http and make it https using 
stunnel.  But unless you were using a local stunnel session......oh I'm 
a bonehead.

That's what you do isn't it? Use two stunnel sessions one at either 
end.  You'd think I'd comprehend a name completely. *headdesk*

I really need to figure out why I can't have coffee any more...

-- 
Mike


Manamana!