[retronet] Gopher…

[Grant Taylor]

On 08/31/2018 01:36 PM, John P. Willis wrote:
> The FidoNet discussion boards.

ACK

> Executive summary: archie indexes FTP servers; veronica for Gopher.

Okay.  I personally want an Archie server for … reasons.

> I've tried to find a WAIS server (even an ancient, abandoned project) 
> a number of times, but always came up empty-handed.

I assume that code is out there somewhere.

> Agreed. Even implementing the Gopher protocol from scratch is incredibly 
> simple.

Yep.  Gopher or WAIS.  ;-)

I'm probably showing my roots, but I'd be inclined to write $something 
in Perl.  Especially if said $something was functioning as a gateway 
between one protocol and a common data store.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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