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

[Kim Holviala]

On 7.4.2010 22:19, Mike Hebel wrote:

>> 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?

The server doesn't know it's SSL - stunnel converts a secured connection 
into an unsecured one and vice versa. That's pretty much the idea of 
stunnel - convert any existing service into SSL one.



- Kim