Please don't take this as flamebait, but is there much useful on gopher these
days? The last time I remember using it was in the early 90's.
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From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com>
To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 10:09:00 AM
Subject: gopher access from modern systems was Re: Coherent 3.1.0...
<plug
class="shameless">
Also, since I can't resist a shameless plug, Gopher protocol support will be
disappearing from Mozilla starting with Firefox 4.0/SeaMonkey 2.1. Maintain
legacy protocols today! It works with Firefox 3.0 on up and the Fx 4.0 beta.
SeaMonkey version coming soon.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7685/
There's no shame in that plug, it's quite useful. Somewhat OT, but,
speaking of, is there something like wget that works on gopher? :)
One of my recurrent plans is to sneak gopher support back into cURL, and there
is interest from their maintainers. In the meantime, gopher is so simple that
something like this will suffice. For arbitrary URL
gopher://host/Qpath
such as
gopher://telefisk.org/00/coherent/ls-lR
drop the Q (the itemtype) and include the rest of the path.
echo '0/coherent/ls-lR' | nc
telefisk.org 70 > ls-lR.txt
If the item type is not doubled, such as
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/wbgopher
then you can just do
echo '/gopher/wbgopher' | nc
gopher.floodgap.com 70 > wbgopher.txt
And, of course, Lynx does do gopher:
lynx -source
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/wbgopher
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