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Gopher ProtocolHandler for Apache2 Released

Posted by michael on from the go-fer-it dept.

hardburn writes "One of the stated goals of the Gopher Manifesto (previously mentioned on Slashdot) was to create a Gopher plugin for Apache. That goal has now been realized with the release of Apache::GopherHandler. Get it off Gopher itself or off CPAN."

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  1. Check your audience by startup.cmd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With Internet Explorer no longer supporting Gopher, what use is this? Mozilla, Opera, and the other Gopher-enabled browsers are not widely used by the public. Unless someone wants to keep the general public from visiting, it seems best to stick with old, reliable HTTP/server-side scripting.
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  2. Here's a thought... by tblease · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Gopher would basically nullify any sort of annoying banner ads, flash pop-up ads, and (even worse) advertising internet apps that seem to have found a niche on some of the bigger websites -- leaving you with just straight content (woo).

    However, gopher servers would still have the same cost issues that web servers have: server maintenance, bandwidth, etc. -- and without advertising it seems that it would be harder to keep up a gopher server. I understand that it takes less bandwidth and space to host gopher services, but even then if the server becomes excessively popular (ie. something along the lines of gopher://slashdot.org/) there still would be some costs incurred.

    Granted, advertising on webpages doesn't bring in as much as it used to -- but every little bit helps in the end, right?

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  3. Well... that's a first for me... by WoTG · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thanks to that Gopher link, I can now claim to have used Gopher.... Hmm... is that good resume fodder? =)

    What's next? Archie?