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Cameron Kaiser | 9 Jun 2003 06:34
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alpha test gopher<->HTTP proxy

I've completed an alpha test of a gopher<->HTTP proxy for public use, now that
most current browser versions have incomplete, broken or outright non-existent
implementations of gopher client code. If you are interested in testing this
out, please contact me in private E-mail with your browser of choice (would
love some Konqueror, Mozilla derivative and Opera testers; I've banged on it
pretty thoroughly with IE, the most notorious, thus far).

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John Goerzen | 9 Jun 2003 17:14
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Re: alpha test gopher<->HTTP proxy

I'd be interested; I use Konqueror.

You may be interested to borrow/steal some code that I've already written
for this purpose:

 * HURG is exactly that.
 * PyGopherd contains some newer HTML code, but it doesn't act as a client.

HURG is pretty well unmaintained since I added HTTP support to PyGopherd.

-- John

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:34:45PM -0700, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> I've completed an alpha test of a gopher<->HTTP proxy for public use, now that
> most current browser versions have incomplete, broken or outright non-existent
> implementations of gopher client code. If you are interested in testing this
> out, please contact me in private E-mail with your browser of choice (would
> love some Konqueror, Mozilla derivative and Opera testers; I've banged on it
> pretty thoroughly with IE, the most notorious, thus far).
> 
> -- 
> ----------------------------- personal page: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
>  Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif., USA * ckaiser <at> floodgap.com
> -- Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. ----------------------
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Beaker | 9 Jun 2003 17:20
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Re: alpha test gopher<->HTTP proxy

Hi Cameron -
I'll try it out: I've got the following browsers (all on NetBSD/sparc excep=
t where indicated):

Dillo-0.7.2
Phoenix-0.5.x
mMosaic-?
Lynx (NetBSD & Win2K)
Mozilla-1.2.1 (on Win2K)

Cheers,
Beaker

-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@...>
To: gopher@...
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 21:34:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [gopher] alpha test gopher<->HTTP proxy

I've completed an alpha test of a gopher<->HTTP proxy for public use, now t=
hat
most current browser versions have incomplete, broken or outright non-exist=
ent
implementations of gopher client code. If you are interested in testing thi=
s
out, please contact me in private E-mail with your browser of choice (would
love some Konqueror, Mozilla derivative and Opera testers; I've banged on i=
t
pretty thoroughly with IE, the most notorious, thus far).
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Cameron Kaiser | 10 Jun 2003 15:20
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proxy note

Sorry to people last night trying to access the gopher proxy; the web server
was down for temporary retooling. All is back up.

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Cameron Kaiser | 11 Jun 2003 18:53
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proxy released

Thanks to Jeff, Papa L., John G. and John C., a few more kinks were worked out
of the proxy, and it's now open for general banging.

	http://www.floodgap.com/gopher/

Report problems, comments, etc. to me. Have fun :-)

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Cameron Kaiser | 11 Jun 2003 18:55
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bucktooth 0.1pr4 now available

Since I had to do some hacking to enhance bucktooth's proxy-ability, I
decided to just go ahead and finish incorporating the rest of the changes
and make a point release. ChangeLog is attached. Documentation is updated
as well.

	gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/buck

Changes from pr3:

* Bug in argument parsing for moles fixed.
* Support for being run as a dependent program from within a proxy (like
  the Gopher Public Proxy).
* Unassigned port bug fixed.
* URL: style linking supported.

Changes from pr2:

* Slightly better relative path handling code.

Changes from pr1:

* Fixed a security hole in open() by making it sysopen() and dodging
  the issue.

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Cameron Kaiser | 12 Jun 2003 20:42
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umn.edu

Maybe it's me, but has anyone else noticed that gopher.tc.umn.edu is no longer
answering?

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Beaker | 12 Jun 2003 20:56
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>Maybe it's me, but has anyone else noticed that gopher.tc.umn.edu is no longer
>answering?

Its been down/dead? for sometime now (~6 months). There does seem to be something at
gopher://umn.edu but it isn't much...
-Beaker
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Fabian Dreher | 13 Jun 2003 17:04

dotGopher 0.0.2 available

Actually I wanted to add some more features (e.g. PHP as CGI) before
releasing 0.0.2,
but I don't find time to code this stuff, so 0.0.2 is mainly a security
fix.
Finally I was able to create a SharpDevelop project file which means
that you can easily compile dotGopher without VS.NET.

ChangeLog:
0.0.2
 13.06.2003
-some more information output on transmissions (IPs/time)
-fixed ../ security issue
-added LeafDir functionality
-added SharpDevelop project file

0.0.1
 02.05.2003
-Initial Release

Links:
gopher://nepp.dyndns.org
http://nepp.dyndns.org/dotGopher/
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Cameron Kaiser | 15 Jun 2003 18:42
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new veronica news

Just some news on the new Veronica-2 server (helsinki).

helsinki got built this weekend; it's running NetBSD on a Power Macintosh
7300 with a 500MHz G3 (1.1 Mdhry/sec, compared to stockholm which clocks in
at 425 Kdhry/sec), 512MB RAM, and a 40GB Western Digital ATA/100 drive.

The eventual goal is to have helsinki take over from stockholm as
gopher.floodgap.com, and all the gopher services will run from it. (Yes,
you heard right, the gopher host will be more powerful than the web host ;-)
It will run bucktooth 0.1pr4 as well.

All the tables were built in MySQL last night, but I'm not going to import
any of the current index from stockholm because the new V-2 data format is
different, and also, many changes have occurred since the last database
build. This new design is intended to be dynamic and auto-updating rather
than waiting for static en-bloc updates like the old WAIS and textil-fs
engines.

ETA to deployment is approximately a month and a half or so, depending on
how long it takes to build a decent index. Watch for the robot in your
server logs soon.

Floodgap loves you. ;-)

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