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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:37:26 +0100 | |
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Hello dear reader, | |
-if you have heard of gopher and you want to explore its space but that | |
-you are lost about how to achieve this, this text is for you. We will | |
-assume that you have no technical skill so everyone can read this. | |
- | |
-Gopher is the name of a protocol to share content like text, images or | |
-any kind of file. A network protocol is a set of rules which allow to | |
-create a common service for different people, everyone needing to | |
-respect thoses rules to be able to communicate each other. Some | |
-developpers will write "Clients" software for the end-user and others | |
-developpers will write "Servers" software which will allow to publish | |
-content. The Gopher protocol is so easy that anyone with basis of | |
-computer science can write its own client or server, and being that | |
-easy. Using Gopher implies to understand the protocol itself, but we | |
-promise it's really easy. | |
+if you have heard about gopher and want to explore its space but feel | |
+lost about how to achieve that, this text is for you. We will assume | |
+that you have no technical skill so everyone can read this. | |
+ | |
+Gopher is the name of a protocol for sharing text, images or any kind | |
+of file. A network protocol is a set of rules which allow to create a | |
+common service for different people, everyone needing to respect | |
+thoses rules to be able to communicate with each other. Some people | |
+writing code (called Developers) will write "Clients" software for the | |
+end-user and others developers will write "Servers" software which | |
+will allow to publish content. The Gopher protocol is so simple that | |
+anyone with basic knowledge of computer science can write its own | |
+client or server easily. Using Gopher implies to understand the | |
+protocol itself, but we promise it's really easy. | |
Gopher is an enjoyable way to browse informations. Every gopherhole | |
-[that is the name we gave to someone gopher content] looks like | |
-another one. There is no way to customize a gopherhole apart from the | |
-text. While this can look a bit harshe, this makes Gopher | |
+[that is the name given to someone's gopher content] looks like | |
+another one. There is no way to customize a gopherhole display except | |
+from the text. While this can look a bit harsh, this makes Gopher | |
universal. If you know how to browse one gopherhole, you will know how | |
-to browse all others because the way to do is consistent. | |
+to browse all others because the way to do it is consistent. | |
So, let's speak about how Gopher works. First, Gopher requires 3 | |
informations if you want to get content. You will need a remote | |
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ the data type and a path to the data. The url looks like th… | |
gopher://hostname/type/path | |
The most important type is the type 1, which is the Gopher menu | |
-type. A Gopher menu is made of differents lines, each line having a | |
-type field to know what kind of data it lead to. It will allow you to | |
-browse from menu to menu or from a menu to a content (image, text, | |
-music...). | |
+type. A Gopher menu is an index made of differents lines, each line | |
+having a type field to know what kind of data it leads to. It will | |
+allow you to browse from menu to menu or from a menu to a content | |
+(image, text, music, archives...). | |
Each line of a menu contains 4 fields separated by a Tabulate | |
character. The fields are, in order : | |
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ character. The fields are, in order : | |
4. TCP Port[1] of the remote server (default is 70) | |
The tricky part is that the type of the line is not a separate field, | |
-it's the first character of the line we is contained inside the first | |
+it is the first character of the line which is contained inside the first | |
field. Gopher clients usually hide it when displaying the text. | |
Here is the list of the most used data types allowed on Gopher, the |