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Re: Gopherpedia is Alive?!

From Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com>
Newsgroups comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject Re: Gopherpedia is Alive?!
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not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

> Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
>> And yes, right now I have gopher on my bbs as a restricted use lynx
>> session. It's janky as fuck but it works. I can, at least, get to
>> gopherpedia on demand from my bbs.
>
> Huh? Gopherpedia hasn't worked for me for most of this year. I
> thought it was dead and burried. But no, I just tried it in Lynx
> instead of UMN Gopher and it loads fine! Something must have
> changed that broke it in UMN Gopher but not in Lynx. Very
> strange.
>
> When I use my bookmark (for the homepage, or my direct search
> bookmark, or also the script I used which to quick-launch it from a
> shortcut) I get a "Nothing Available" error. Same with this
> command:
>
>   gopher gopher://gopherpedia.com/
>
> This never did work for some reason, now returning "Gopher
> Transmission Error":
>
>   gopher gopherpedia.com
>
> If I try to telnet into it the connection is immediately closed:
>
>   telnet gopherpedia.com 70
>   Trying 178.128.128.21...
>   Connected to gopherpedia.com.
>   Escape character is '^]'.
>   Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Same if I use nc and send a leading '/' selector like the first UMN
> gopher command (that used to work):
>
> echo / | nc gopherpedia.com 70
> [nothing]
>
> Same if I try to fetch a document:
>
> echo about | nc gopherpedia.com 70
> [nothing]
>
> This is really frustrating. From that I would be, and was, quite
> satisfied that it's dead, but in Lynx (and I see some other Gopher
> clients) it works. Do other Gopher clients not work the way it's
> described in section 2 of RFC1436?
>
> Oh wait, I just tried on a VPS and nc works there:
>
> $ echo / | nc gopherpedia.com 70
> i                    _                              _ _       _ null    (FALSE) 0
> i | | | (_) | | null (FALSE) 0
> i __ _ ___ _ __ | |__ ___ _ __ _ __ ___ __| |_ __ _| | null (FALSE) 0
> i / _` |/ _ \| '_ \| '_ \ / _ \ '__| '_ \ / _ \/ _` | |/ _` | | null
> (FALSE) 0
> i | (_| | (_) | |_) | | | | __/ | | |_) | __/ (_| | | (_| |_| null
> (FALSE) 0
> i \__, |\___/| .__/|_| |_|\___|_| | .__/ \___|\__,_|_|\__,_(_) null
> (FALSE) 0
> i   __/ |     | |                   | | null    (FALSE) 0
> i  |___/      |_|                   |_| null    (FALSE) 0
> [...]
>
> But I can use other clients from my own internet connection, just
> not UMN Gopher or those general-purpose tools (which still work
> fine with other Gopher servers). Perhaps the Gopherpedia server
> just has some insanely short time-out before automatically closing
> the connection? So delays in software plus internet connection
> delays combine to decide whether the request gets through before
> the connection gets the chop?
>
> Also in the Dillo Gopher plug-in the homepage works but none of
> the text documents load. No time to send the "/" selector string
> over my internet connection? Akfgb (from akfnetz) loads pages with
> short selector request strings, but not long ones, and sometimes
> short ones fail too, so I think that's it. No time for bug reports
> now though, or indeed finding out whether there's an email address
> to send them to...

try gopher://gopherpedia.com

Sometimes he has issues that I'll report to him, but yeah it's been
quite consistent.

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