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

[Mike Hebel]

On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:28 AM 4/8/10, Kim Holviala wrote:

> 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.

Yeah I got that after a bit.  See other post calling myself a  
bonehead.  ;-)
--
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