[gopher] Opera browser; gopher proxy

[Damien Carol]

Thanks !!!!

I'm using Opera !

2012/5/9 Wolfgang Faust <wolfgangmcq at gmail.com>

> 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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