[gopher] Opera browser; gopher proxy

[Wolfgang Faust]

Excellent idea! I'll add that to the proxy & archive when I get the chance.

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Driedfruit <driedfruit at mindloop.net> wrote:

> Hello list!
>
> My web-browser of choice is Opera, and sadly it misses gopher
> support, unacceptable as it is.
>
> So I tried to remedy the situation: first by investigating the
> possibility of porting one of the Overbite extensions or writing my own
> for Opera. Turned out, no user javascript gets executed for non
> http(s):// links in that browser, so there wasn't any good possibility
> to hook it up to the uri scheme.
>
> However, Opera still sports the old-school "proxy servers"
> configuration dialog with gopher being one of the protocol to
> distinguish.
>
> Initially, I assumed that services like floodgap provided such
> functionality, but it turned out, they are just web-sites, not actual
> proxies. I then learned about Squid Proxy Server, which does indeed
> provide what I needed. But Squid is a bit of overkill for such a simple
> task :/
>
> And so I wrote my own implementation (lamely using php on top of a
> webserver I already had running) which I've been using for quite some
> time now.
>
> You can test it with a compatible browser (I think Opera is the last
> one to support gopher proxies) by using mindloop.net , port 80 . It
> looks like newer versions of Opera removed the config dialog,
> but the options are still accessible throu an ini-file:
>
> [Proxy]
> Use GOPHER=1
> Gopher server=mindloop.net:80
>
> I figure this information could be useful.
>
> I also would LOVE to have floodgap and other gopher proxy-sites to add
> such functionality, so I would be able to use them directly with my
> browser.
>
> Here's my horrible, non-RFC complaint (URL mapping is wrong) code for
> reference.
> gopher://mindloop.net/0/~sobak/proxy/gopher.php<http://mindloop.net/0/%7Esobak/proxy/gopher.php>
>
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