Gopher

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Gopher is a communications protocol for distributing, searching and retriving documents. It is fairly simple and uses very few resources

A typical response of a gopher call.

0about.txt	/about.txt/	localhost	70
0first page.txt	/first_page.txt/	localhost	70
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Clients

  • curl supports gopher out of the box
  • lynx can be used to browse gopher pages easily, it opens it up as a gopher menu to consume

Servers

  • redis supports serving gopher requests

References

  • https://github.com/antirez/gopher2redis