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

Kim Holviala kim at holviala.com
Mon Sep 18 04:34:23 UTC 2017


On 18 Sep 2017, at 00:08, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Good enough reasoning - gophernicus.org is now running TLS on port 7443. Clients can probe the TLS port by fetching caps.txt so no need to guess anything (ServerTLSPort).

gopher://gophernicus.org/0/caps.txt



- Kim


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