[gopher] Gopher+ support in the community

[James Mills]

cgod doesn't implement Gopher+
(I don't think Gophernisus does either)

My views on Gopher+ are a bit hazy.
I think it need (if we want to improve the protocol) rethinking...

gophers:// could be very interesting.
However existing clients would not be able to use this.
So this would require completely new clients.
(Gopherspaces could support both gopher:// and gophers:// I suppose for
backwards compatbility with older clients)

My Gopher client(s) of choice are basically
curl and Overbite. I was using elinks for a bit
but have found it's implementation to by buggy
at best.

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm curious to know how many widely used Gopher clients properly support
> Gopher+ and what's the communities general view about supporting it.
>
> I personally haven't used any Gopher+ features, and my current GopherSpace
> doesn't use it either. How many of your gopherspaces have Gopher+ support?
>
> I'm also a tad curious on working with "gophers://", Gopher over TLS. it'd
> be easy to enable on a gopher server, but no clients currently support it.
>
> On that note about Gopher clients, I did mention awhile back that I was
> planning on developing a more modern stand alone gopher client for PCs. So
> if I made a new client, I'd add Gopher over TLS support for kicks, and
> depending on overall support, maybe Gopher+ support. OverbiteFF doesn't do
> Gopher+ it seems(from reading it's source) and neither does the android
> client...
>
> One last question... what is your Gopher client of choice, and why?
>
> Kevin.
> --
> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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