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Quick note on libwww-based browsers and saving gopher listings as HTML |
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March 31st, 2018 |
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So, gopher listings can contain just about any text... including text |
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that looks like HTML, text like <B><U><I>this isn't bold!</I></U></B>.. |
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From what I can see, libwww-based browsers like Lynx, Mosaic, and Net- |
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scape will display gopher listings containing HTML fragments properly: |
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as plain text and not rendered HTML... |
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However, if you save the listing to disk (using lynx -dump for instance) |
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they all fail to encode the entities for < and > in gopher listing |
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(<, >)... So if one was to reopen the saved files, the browser |
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(rightly) will render the HTML that should have been plain text. |
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This is really a pain in the rear, I need to go put some workarounds |
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on my gopher to HTTP gateway to deal with this, and also go snoop around |
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the libwww code in Lynx to see if it can be fixed; really no need to go |
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upstream straight to libwww itself, because it appears that it is no |
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longer maintained. Bummer. :( |
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