Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: RS Wood Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.infosystems.gopher Subject: Re: Gopherpedia Date: 16 Mar 2014 16:13:04 GMT Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <20140312152233.67afd1d2.rsw@therandymon.com> <20140315233024.4ee1c371@dissentio.trisquel.info> Reply-To: randy@therandymon.com X-Trace: individual.net as0iy9FkbxWSbZbdumgaiQSRGcQeWvwjlvbF2j7DCVVZwIWZtc Cancel-Lock: sha1:kGKAbIBuUSmy3K56x4I0DVSkPEM= User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:1683 comp.infosystems.gopher:56 On 2014-03-16, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: > On 12 Mar 2014 21:32:48 GMT > Bob Eager wrote: > >> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:42:40 +0000, RS Wood wrote: >> >> > On 2014-03-12, 2phar wrote: >> >> On 3/12/2014 11:22 AM, RS Wood wrote: >> >>> Introducing: gopherpedia: everything you expect from wikipedia, >> >>> provided in plain text over the gopher protocol. >> > >> >> Doesn't seem to be providing any directory when trying access it >> >> from gopher on port 70 >> > >> > >> > I just tried it and it works for me. Firewall issue? >> > % lynx gopher://gopherpedia.com >> > >> > Comes right up. Faster than Wikipedia too, I might add. I don't >> > know of any other clients other than lynx. Even the "links" or w3m >> > browser doesn't speak gopher anymore. >> >> I used the text gopher client. >> >> >> > > I initially had this issue as well because I typed 'gopher > gopherpedia.com'. I believe the text gopher client speaks more > protocols than just gopher. Adding "gopher://" to the front of the > domain works: 'gopher gopher://gopherpedia.com' > > Phew, that's a lot of gopher... > > cmh I see from an earlier thread in comp.infosystems.gopher that gopher://qix.me is online. That would be another interesting site to point yer gopher at. Seems silly that the gopher client requires you to specify the protocol, but maybe they had plans for expansion back in the day ...