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Don't see the reason why it's not a live proxy

• digi_owl 9y ago
  Could be something with how Gopher is effective a file transfer protocol. Meaning that each entry shown is either a file or a directory. Thus i am guessing the scarper takes each discussion and convert that into individual text files to be delivered over Gopher, rather than have a custom Gopher server that generates the files on access.
  • klez 9y ago
    There's no technical reason gopher cannot act as a proxy to the web. Some years ago I started writing a gopher server in Java that did dynamic file serving. This would have been a possible use case.
  • huntie 9y ago
    There's no reason why it coudn't be a live site. A live version would require a custom gopher server though, and it looks like they're using Gophernicus. So what they're doing would be analogous to serving static files with NGINX but having the files updated periodically.