Hello all!

I have been working on a new, still-unnamed graphical Gopher client for Linux, Mac and Windows.

You can see it in action here: https://imgur.com/a/miOTyl7

My goal is to create the richest, most modern Gopher client around, with features not even seen in web browsers, like multi-column navigation, filterable folder & files view, and inline media display. And of course: tabs, history, bookmarks, downloads, caching, inline search fields, the omnibar, a new tab page...

Planned features include TLS, theming (dark mode anyone?), "watched" pages with a daily feed of updates, inline and tree navigation, whole-folder downloads, extensions for new Gopher types, rendering modes, file types, number-based navigation, gemini protocol, and more.

I think it's reaching an interesting point, and I wanted to share. I did not release the repository yet, but I will do if there's interest.

What do you think?

^{^(And how should I name it? :D)}

Hi all, today I released version 1.0 of my terminal gopher client for mac and linux, phetch:

https://github.com/xvxx/phetch/releases/tag/v1.0.0

If you'd like to try it you can install with brew install xvxx/code/phetch or yay phetch if you have Homebrew or an AUR helper for Arch Linux. Otherwise grab a tarball from the releases page and enjoy!

Hi all! I just recently hosted a home gopher server at gopher://molleraj.homelinuxserver.org:70/, which right now includes a phlog. I also plan to add perhaps some news feeds via RSS (gopherfeed) and local weather reports probably through wttr.in, though I know I can get text weather reports from floodgap. Does anyone else have some fun gopher ideas? I was thinking of text-based games as well. I know there is some interactive fiction, and I was thinking about creating something like a virtual garden visitors could plant in and look at through a "map." Anyway, gopher is really impressing me, and it seems perfect for keeping older tech alive in a new age.

After recovering my data on an old hard drive, my gopher server is now back online - after nine years. I don't know exactly why, but it feels good. :)

It's certainly not a pearl of the gopher world, but for the sake of completeness here's the link:

gopher://port70.de

or

gopher://gopher.thesprawl.city

I do not use gopher as often as I wish I did. But I did access my gopherhole this morning and I was reminded of the sheer speed of the protocol. The speed alone makes gopher excellent for information retrieval. I wish there was a gopher revival. How are you using or promoting gopher these days?

Hello, All;

For the past year I’ve been working on a new minimal gopher proxy service for the web

https://gopherproxy.net

It has no JavaScript or cookies, written in C, and displays inline images.

The project is free software and is available here https://0x1bi.net/1/git?suricate

If you found any of this useful and want to give back you can donate here Bitcoin: 1LaB3qyW9yzUzZ5n2vaURYfHJWMy4sfBEq

I wrote a smol HTTP to Gopher proxy mainly for the benefit of my gopher client on my PDP11, so I can do some "web" browsing on a microcontroller. I thought it may be of interest to some gopher users here - please do let me know of any potential improvements.

I'm also looking for a lighter-weight gopher client for my PDP11 - with only 65k of ram addressable at any time by a process, I keep running into malloc errors when I try to visit larger translated pages. If you know of any, please do let me know.

Link is at catalyst.nimbulus.xyz:70.

Hi Gophers,

I made a Gopher browser that runs in any modern web browser; no need to install a native app. I welcome feedback on the client as well as the experimental protocols described below.

Gaufre web client: https://gopher.commons.host

Source code: https://gitlab.com/commonshost/gaufre

Preview:

Most content types I could find in the Gopherverse are supported. That includes:

• plain text

• menus

• input fields

• images

• audio

• video

• HTML (sandboxed, no external requests!)

• PDF

• Binary downloads

For usability, it is designed with:

• Responsive text scaling for phone, tablet, and desktop.

• Themes with dark/light modes.

• Delegating basic controls to the web browser (back/forward, bookmarks, reload, etc)

This client is also a proof of concept of two new experimental transport protocols that require no changes to the Gopher protocol.

• Gopher over HTTP (GoH) - Lightweight proxy tunnelling of Gopher data over HTTP request/response. See: https://gitlab.com/commonshost/goh

• Gopher over TLS (GoT) - Encrypted Gopher connections. Uses SNI to support virtual hosting by Gopher servers, and ALPN for forward compatibility. See: https://gitlab.com/commonshost/goth

The GoH protocol makes it possible for any device or platform with an HTTP client to access raw Gopher traffic through a very simple proxy. It is not limited only to Gopher browsers like mine. This is different from existing Gopher-to-HTML proxies which transform Gopher content into human-friendly but machine-unfriendly rich markup.

The GoT protocol allows hosting of multiple domains on a single IP address, something Gopher cannot do otherwise. I have used this ability to create a Gopher CDN and hosting service, available at gopher://commons.host. It should even be possible, though I have not yet attempted, to place a GoT socket forwarder on port 70 which routes traffic based on the SNI servername to any (unmodified) Gopher servers running on different ports. A similar design, though without SNI and ALPN, was proposed last year by Solène using sslh_fork. See: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2019-03-07-gopher-server-tls.html

I’ve setup a Gemini capsule and a Gopher server and wanted to find somewhere to announce that.

gemini://whitemercury.ddns.net

and

gopher://whitemercury.ddns.net

(they are mostly the same)

It’s nothing exciting, I’ve mostly just copied a few posts from my blog for now just to add “content”. I’m not sure what it might turn into.

I made a wee Gopherhole I want to put online, but most of what I can find online about hosting involve doing it yourself, which I currently can't do.

I tried going with SDF, but SSH/Mkgopher isn't creating the directories it's supposed to, so I can't upload anything there. I tried some other servers, but they all use the same software. (I use Ubuntu 18.04 if anyone wants to help there)

Are there any hosts I can go with that can use (S)FTP/Filezilla to upload the files, or is there another way to upload the files that would work on my PC?