[gopher] Linking to gopher on the web

[Alistair]

On 03/08/2014 19:58, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> I am updating my website, and I wanted to link to my gopherhole.
>>
>> But I would like to have some nice, simple way to say "this may not
>> work" just in case the reader does not have a gopher client installed
>> (which, sadly, is now more frequent than some years ago...)
>>
>> Does anyone have suggestions or ideas?
>
> I don't quite follow -- like a fallback error page if they click on it
> and nothing happens?
>

The best solution I can think of is to have the proper link to 
gopher://whatever.foo and then have a link to an html proxy in brackets 
after it for people whose browsers just say "don't know how to handle 
this protocol"

Alistair