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Re: Gopherpedia is Alive?! (was: coprolit static site generator for fossil scm)

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From not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject Re: Gopherpedia is Alive?! (was: coprolit static site generator for fossil scm)
Newsgroups comp.infosystems.gopher
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Date 2025-11-27 08:11 +1000
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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...

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