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gopher_site_setup_and_hosting_features [2021/03/12 08:41] – [Creating your own Gopherspace] fix formatting peteyboygopher_site_setup_and_hosting_features [2023/06/30 23:37] (current) – [Caveat] hc9
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 What is Gopher? What is Gopher?
  
-//From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)//+//From: <nowiki>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)</nowiki>//
  
 > The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet [...]. The protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it. > The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP Application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet [...]. The protocol offers some features not natively supported by the Web and imposes a much stronger hierarchy on information stored on it.
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 ===== Viewing Gopherspace ===== ===== Viewing Gopherspace =====
  
-There are many ways to view gopherspace. The easiest for new users is one of the following:+There are many ways to view gopherspace. Here are the easiest ways you can [[accessing web spaces#Gopher| view gopher pages from the SDF shell]]
  
-==== Use Lynx ==== +Additionally, you can issue the ''gopher'' command, either from the SDF shell or from within the ''mkgopher'' command prompt. This command can be also used to create your gopherspace as described below, and also includes a very basic browser to explore gopherspace.
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-[[http://lynx.invisible-island.net/|Lynx]] is the //text// web browser. \\  In addition to web browsing, Lynx is also capable of browsing gopherspace. \\  From the SDF shell, you can issue the command: +
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-  $ lynx gopher://sdf.org/ +
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-and Lynx will start up at sdf.org'gopher root menu. +
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-==== Floodgap Gopher Proxy ==== +
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-Floodgap.com provides a public gopher proxy that you can view in your web browser at https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw. \\  For more information, see the proxy info page: https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ +
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-==== Bombadillo ==== +
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-Made for browsing Gopherspace and [[gemini site setup and hosting features | Geminispace]], too, you can use the homegrown 'bombadillobrowser +
-  $ bombadillo gopher://sdf.org/ +
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-==== SDF Gopher Command ==== +
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-You can issue the gopher command, either from the SDF shell or from within the ''mkgopher'' command prompt. This can be used to create your gopherspace as described below, and also includes a very basic browser to explore gopherspace.+
      
 ===== Creating your own Gopherspace ===== ===== Creating your own Gopherspace =====
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-legacy link: http://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher,v 1.24 2020/01/01 22:37:47 niro Exp $+Traditional link (using [[wp>Revision_Control_System|RCS]]): http://sdf.org/?tutorials/gopher ,v 1.24 2020/01/01 22:37:47 niro Exp $ 
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