On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 07:12:54PM +0400, anonymous wrote: > Lynx and Mozilla Firefox support Gopher. firefox's gopher support has some catches (e.g. only port 70 is supported, given port after : is ignored).
There is an extension for firefox called overbite: http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/ this adds decent gopher support. lynx used to be a terribly buggy gopher client, but in recent versions the major problems seem to be fixed. I remember it had an issue with a bit overzealous caching, so watch out. There's also the "gopher" package in Debian, which is supposedly "a text-based (ncurses) client from the University of Minnesota." This is an abomination that tries to connect with (the nonstandard) gopher+ by default and if the gopher server doesn't handle this, fails utterly. Gopher servers must contain gopher+ trampolines to work around this problem. It has problems handling menus with more consecutive info lines than the screen height (this is a bit unusual but not unknown situation). My vote: if you're firefox running anyway, use overbite; otherwise try lynx. Mate
