[gopher] [GOGOPH] Starting crawler

[Christoph Lohmann]

Greetings.

On Thu, 03 May 2012 23:20:41 +0200 Jeff W <simple at sdf.org> wrote:
> > ...
> > Anyway, you can enter this command with Gopher UMN client:
> >  "gopher -p/ dams.zapto.org"
> 
> Same with the geomyidae gopherd;  I just assumed it was a bug in
> the UMN gopher client.  Might be worth keeping a work-around since
> gopher(1) seems to still linger in various package repositories.

According  to the source of gopher(1) it is assuming Gopher+, if no path
is given. Only if a path is given, then the flag for Gopher+ isn’t  set.
The  gopher plus flag will always first read the Gopher+ header. If that
cannot be received it aborts.

Either  gopher(1)  is patched to first assume plain gopher or all gopher
servers move to Gopher+.


Sincerely,

Christoph Lohmann