[gopher] TLS situation in gopher [was: Re: Gophernicus 2.4 "Millennium Edition" released]
Jaruzel
jaruzel at jaruzel.com
Tue Feb 7 16:18:09 UTC 2017
In article <20170207221841.2b60d3cc at mindloop.net>, driedfruit-pqpQE
+7wlovk1uMJSBkQmQ at public.gmane.org says...
>On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:40:00 +0200
>Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:
>
>> 0About this project /about.txt gophernicus.org TLS:7070
>>
>> But I'm quite certain some clients completely break down when handed
>> a menu like that.
>
>How about 7070:TLS, then? If they do something like atoi, without
>any extra checks, could this work?
>
Wouldn't it be better to look at adding it as a Gopher+ extension?
Gopher+ may be badly designed, but it is already a standard, and has been
designed NOT to break classic Gopher only clients.
-Matt
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