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Gopher has actually evolved since, though. The Gemini community doesn't want their protocol to evolve.
by Semiapies 5y ago
Gopher has actually evolved since, though. The Gemini community doesn't want their protocol to evolve.
- spc476 5y agoThe Gopher+ protocol doesn't seem to be that popular in practice, and the only evolution of the gopher protocol since the mid-90s is the introduction of a few new selector types not found in RFC-1436 (like 'i' and 'h'), and the switch to UTF-8 (instead of ISO-8859-1 mentioned in RFC-1436). There are a few servers and clients that support TLS for gopher, but it's not exactly a good fit [1]. [1] http://boston.conman.org/2019/03/31.1 http://boston.conman.org/2019/03/31.1
- selfhoster11 5y agoMy bad, I didn't realise that Gopher+ was an actual protocol. I simply meant to use that name as a placeholder for something that's slightly more than basic Gopher, not to refer to any specific proposal.