[gopher] OverbiteFF with proxy

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Tue Aug 21 13:31:49 UTC 2012


> On campus at my University, I have to use a proxy to access Gopher. The 
> proxy is expecting a request somehow and returns an HTML formatted page 
> with the Gopher menu.
> 
> Any idea how to get this working with OverbiteFF?
> 
> Squid is the proxy used I believe.

You can't use Squid with OverbiteFF. Squid does have a gopher proxy, but
I don't think Firefox supports that functionality anymore (and the Squid
gopher proxy renders pages for you, routing around OverbiteFF in any case).
The only proxy you can use with OverbiteFF is SOCKS.

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