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Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread) comp.infosystems.gopher Posted: 14 Days ago by: Anthk I can read articles with just netcat and less.
Re: Simple conversions from HTML to simple markups are (thread) comp.infosystems.gopher Posted: 19 Days 2 Hours ago by: Andrea Biscuola Hi Luca. This is what I do through gmi2html: https://lab.abiscuola.org/gmnxd/dir?ci=tip&name=src/gmi2html I write my articles in gemtext and, through a script, convert the pages to HTML with that tool (BTW, I wrote it). My capsule:
Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread) comp.infosystems.gopher Posted: 26 Days 12 Hours ago by: Wandere Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. For now, I'll poke around gopherspace and see what I find.
Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread) comp.infosystems.gopher Posted: 27 Days ago by: Computer Nerd Kev In terms of the protocol itself compared to HTTP (etc.) the main advantage is that it's very simple and easy to fully understand. So if you're writing a server or client for it entirely from scratch, it's potentially easier to write a com
Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread) comp.infosystems.gopher Posted: 27 Days 2 Hours ago by: Marco Moock It is text-only, so very secure, fast and without the modern web's shitty use of JavaScript. You need a gopher server. Do some googling, there should be information how to set one up.
Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread) comp.infosystems.gopher Posted: 27 Days 5 Hours ago by: jeorge Ask the Magic AWK ball: gopher://rawtext.club/7/~zilog/cgi-bin/AWKball.awk
What is the advantage of gopher? comp.infosystems.gopher Posted: 27 Days 10 Hours ago by: Wandere What are the advantages of gopher? Is it fast? I get that it is just a file transfer protocol but that is just a layer. Programs are just files. I could send encrypted programs, have it decrypted and run and use it to control and update rem

Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread)

comp.infosystems.gopher

Posted: 14 Days ago by: Anthk

I can read articles with just netcat and less.

Re: Simple conversions from HTML to simple markups are (thread)

comp.infosystems.gopher

Posted: 19 Days 2 Hours ago by: Andrea Biscuola

Hi Luca. This is what I do through gmi2html: https://lab.abiscuola.org/gmnxd/dir?ci=tip&name=src/gmi2html I write my articles in gemtext and, through a script, convert the pages to HTML with that tool (BTW, I wrote it). My capsule:

Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread)

comp.infosystems.gopher

Posted: 26 Days 12 Hours ago by: Wandere

Thanks, that's what I wanted to know. For now, I'll poke around gopherspace and see what I find.

Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread)

comp.infosystems.gopher

Posted: 27 Days ago by: Computer Nerd Kev

In terms of the protocol itself compared to HTTP (etc.) the main advantage is that it's very simple and easy to fully understand. So if you're writing a server or client for it entirely from scratch, it's potentially easier to write a com

Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread)

comp.infosystems.gopher

Posted: 27 Days 2 Hours ago by: Marco Moock

It is text-only, so very secure, fast and without the modern web's shitty use of JavaScript. You need a gopher server. Do some googling, there should be information how to set one up.

Re: What is the advantage of gopher? (thread)

comp.infosystems.gopher

Posted: 27 Days 5 Hours ago by: jeorge

Ask the Magic AWK ball: gopher://rawtext.club/7/~zilog/cgi-bin/AWKball.awk

What is the advantage of gopher?

comp.infosystems.gopher

Posted: 27 Days 10 Hours ago by: Wandere

What are the advantages of gopher? Is it fast? I get that it is just a file transfer protocol but that is just a layer. Programs are just files. I could send encrypted programs, have it decrypted and run and use it to control and update rem

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