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

http://github.com/indrora/foxGopherClient

by indrora • 16 years ago

25 9 16 years ago

davidblair• 16 years 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• 16 years ago

In the same vein, see: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://gopher.thurman... for a gopher interface to Reddit.

enneff2• 16 years ago

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

indrora• 16 years ago

Elegant! I like it!

enneff2• 16 years 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• 16 years 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• 16 years 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• 16 years ago

I wrote a Hacker News and Digg Gopher proxy.

gopher://synack.me/

jey• 16 years 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. :)

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

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