[gopher] Overbite Chrome

[Cameron Kaiser]

I decided to see if it was possible, and it was!

While Chrome cannot be made to actually *speak* the protocol, it can be
made (with some clever footwork) to forward gopher:// requests onto a proxy.
It might be possible to make it speak the protocol with an NPAPI plugin, but
that's getting a little too crazy for right now.

The extension I whipped up does the following, with a proxy of your choice:

	- Forwards gopher:// URLs you type in the location bar. This will
		not work if you are not using one of the default 3 search
		engines (you'll see why -- it's slightly evil).
	- Rewrites gopher:// URLs in pages to point to the proxy.

By default it uses the Floodgap proxy, natch, but I also tested it with
gopherproxy.org and it seems to work there also. I'd appreciate seeing how
it works with any gopher proxy you yourself are running, if you are.

Anyway,

	gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/9/overbite_chrome.crx

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