[gopher] Major update to Web2Gopher

[Wesley Teal]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>wrote:

> > I'd kind of left Web2Gopher (http://wt.gopherite.org/) unmaintained for
> a
> > while, and so went back through over the last week and made a major
> update.
>
> Nice work!
>
> > There are some kinks I'm still working out:
> > *Mozilla derivatives like IceApe, IceWeasel, IceCat, Gnuzilla, etc. will
> be
> > shunted through a proxy unless they include the appropriate Firefox
> version
> > in their user agent string.
> [...]
> > *Also bad browsers that have add-ons that allow them to handle gopher
> (such
> > as Firefox 5 or Google Chrome with Overbite, or Konqueror with
> kio_gopher)
> > will get shunted through the proxy rather than letting the add-ons handle
> > gopher.
>
> For Chrome this isn't a bad thing since they would just get bounced to a
> proxy anyway with Overbite Chrome, but that's kind of a bummer for Firefox.
> How about a "force links to gopher://" page where the links are always
> gopher://, regardless of the browser sniff, as an option?
>

There's now a link for using gopher regardless of browser sniffing.

>
> > *Support for Vonkeror and HyperLink have not been tested. Vonkeror should
> > work, all the same. I was not able to find any info on HyperLink's user
> > agent string and had to guess as to what it might contain, so if anyone
> has
> > that, I can make sure whether my guess was correct or not.
>
> Vonkeror is slick. Who wrote that?
>

It looks like it's a fork of Conqueror (http://conkeror.org/) by whoever
maintains zzo38computer.cjb.net/

>
> The user agent for HyperLink is
>
>        Lynx (compatible; HyperLink-Parsing-Proxy C64/128)
>

Thanks. The page should recognize HyperLink now.

>
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