[gopher] Gophernicus 2.4 "Millennium Edition" released

[Matt Owen (Jaruzel)]

In article <o7rt7e$9uo$1 at blaine.gmane.org>, mateusz-hSUp8W
+IdYRwwlOqo6u1QA at public.gmane.org says...

>While I'm not interested in TLS support myself (truly don't see the 
> point)

Nor me, but if it's going to happen anyway, I do want to help steer it to 
some sort of sane standard.

>An SSL-enabled client would need to try resolving the TXT record attached 
>to the server's hostname. If found, it would scan it. If the TXT record 
>would contain something like this...
>
>  IN TXT      "GTLS:433"
>
>...it would know that it's possible to connect to the same host on port 
>TCP/433 and expect an SSL layer there, and automatically switch the url 
>to gophers://hostname:433

I like this idea - it has a lot of merit, however some cheap DNS registrars 
don't allow TXT records. 

However, a backup to this could be:

  gophers.<domain.name>

as a CNAME or A record.

Which a client could also query, and if it exists, uses that on the (IANA 
approved) gopher-tls port.

-Matt