[gopher] Should we be mirroring Gopher sites via FTP?

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Sun Sep 17 21:08:44 UTC 2017


> We didn't decide... so I just did straight up gopher-over-TLS (no STARTLS
> though) running on randomly chosen port 7070. And as far as I know there
> are no clients which would support the gophers// protocol.

I realize this is bikeshedding, but given I've seen 7070 serve for test
gopher servers in the past (and appears in /etc/services as ARCP), perhaps
7443 would be more appropriate, which is completely unencumbered and even
suggests what the service actually does.

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