Gateway from Internet Gophers to TechInfo Services
This is a one way gateway from gopher protocol to TI protocol:
gopher client connects to this server and makes a request, this
program connects to a TechInfo server and gets the appropriate
information, sends the response to the client, and then closes
the connection.
Request from gopher client This program's response
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blank line Local TechInfo Server's main menu,
WorldWide TechInfo, and,
Univ of Minn Gopher
type tihost tiport tinodeid Results of Techinfo transaction
worldwide-techinfo List of TechInfo servers
Goph-TI-Gateway Document -- about this gopher
Examples: In these examples, HOST is the FQDN of the host that
this program runs on, and PORT is the gopher port that this program
is listening on (from inetd).
Input:
blank line
Output:
0About this Gopher TAB Goph-TI-Gateway TAB HOST TAB PORT
1About PennInfo TAB M ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 836 TAB HOST PORT
0Today's Weather TAB D ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 7182 TAB HOST TAB PORT
1World wide TechInfo TAB worldwide-techinfo TAB HOST TAB PORT
1Univ of Minn Gopher TAB TAB gopher.micro.umn.edu TAB 70
Input:
worldwide-techinfo
Output:
1MIT TAB M tiserve.mit.edu 9000 0 TAB HOST TAB PORT
1University of Oslo TAB M xantos.uio.no 9000 0 TAB HOST TAB PORT
Input:
M ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 0
Output:
1About PennInfo TAB M ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 836 TAB HOST PORT
0Today's Weather TAB D ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 7182 TAB HOST TAB PORT
Input:
D ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 7182
Output:
{ascii text document}
Input:
K ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 120 TAB internet gopher
Output:
0The Internet Gopher - What is it? TAB D ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 3568 TAB HOST TAB PORT
This program is not standalone -- it's meant to be called from
inetd.
READ the INSTALL and MAINT files to learn how to install
and maintain the gateway.
