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Show HN: I wrote a gopher client and decided to put it on GitHub.

25 points by indrora 16y ago

davidblair 16y ago
In some respects HN is a Gopher server adapted for today. Focused on content, links to information, and just enough detail to keep you going. As a protocol, Gopher is straight forward. Whenever someone talks about the "semantic web" I'm always reminded of Gopher has been doing since 1991. It is in no way perfect, but worked well.
- gjm11 16y ago
  In the same vein, see: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.thurman.org.uk:70/1/reddit/ http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.thurman... for a gopher interface to Reddit.
enneff 16y ago
Coincidentally, I wrote a Gopher server (in Go!) during a meeting yesterday: https://github.com/nf/gogopherd https://github.com/nf/gogopherd
- indrora 16y ago
  Elegant! I like it!
  - enneff 16y ago
    Thank you. It's rudimentary, but it works. It demonstrates a couple of Go concepts: - goroutines (to Serve each request) - interfaces (the Listing type implements the path.Visitor pattern so it can generate itself, and both the Entry and Listing types implement the fmt.Stringer interface so that fmt can stringify them).
beaumartinez 16y ago
Gopher?! Why? Also, I'm pretty sure the reason most Gopher clients were abandoned was in fact due to the explicit lack of coffee making, you might want to at least make some attempt at an implementation...
dfox 16y ago
I like to use gopher for early demonstrations that some low-level networking code works or how it should be used. It is certainly easier to write working gopher client/server than to deal with intricacies of HTTP or most other protocols when you want to test that TCP stack or code that breaks down incoming byte stream into lines actually works. And I'm seriously considering writing GUI gopher client as an all-encompassing example in dfsch.
synack 16y ago
I wrote a Hacker News and Digg Gopher proxy. gopher://synack.me/
jey 16y ago
Huh, I had no idea people still cared about Gopher, but this thread is showing me otherwise. I have fond memories of spelunking around gopher servers back in 1993. :)

25 points by indrora 16y ago

In some respects HN is a Gopher server adapted for today. Focused on content, links to information, and just enough detail to keep you going. As a protocol, Gopher is straight forward. Whenever someone talks about the "semantic web" I'm always reminded of Gopher has been doing since 1991. It is in no way perfect, but worked well.

gjm11 16y ago
In the same vein, see: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.thurman.org.uk:70/1/reddit/ http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.thurman... for a gopher interface to Reddit.

enneff 16y ago

Coincidentally, I wrote a Gopher server (in Go!) during a meeting yesterday: https://github.com/nf/gogopherd https://github.com/nf/gogopherd

indrora 16y ago
Elegant! I like it!
- enneff 16y ago
  Thank you. It's rudimentary, but it works. It demonstrates a couple of Go concepts: - goroutines (to Serve each request) - interfaces (the Listing type implements the path.Visitor pattern so it can generate itself, and both the Entry and Listing types implement the fmt.Stringer interface so that fmt can stringify them).

beaumartinez 16y ago

Gopher?! Why? Also, I'm pretty sure the reason most Gopher clients were abandoned was in fact due to the explicit lack of coffee making, you might want to at least make some attempt at an implementation...

dfox 16y ago

I like to use gopher for early demonstrations that some low-level networking code works or how it should be used. It is certainly easier to write working gopher client/server than to deal with intricacies of HTTP or most other protocols when you want to test that TCP stack or code that breaks down incoming byte stream into lines actually works. And I'm seriously considering writing GUI gopher client as an all-encompassing example in dfsch.

synack 16y ago

I wrote a Hacker News and Digg Gopher proxy. gopher://synack.me/

jey 16y ago

Huh, I had no idea people still cared about Gopher, but this thread is showing me otherwise. I have fond memories of spelunking around gopher servers back in 1993. :)