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Squid service on gopher.zcrayfish.soy discontinued |
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December 13th, 2023 |
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The precompiled version of Squid which comes with my distro, |
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Alpine Linux, seems to have stopped supporting gopher recently. |
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Consequently the gopherproxy.sh cgi script on the web server, which some |
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folks were using to access other gopher servers, has ceased to function. |
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I don't feel like going through the maintenance burden of compiling my |
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own version of squid, despite the fact that it is an /extremely/ easy |
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piece of software to compile... |
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I do think I will try to rework the gopherproxy.sh script to use lynx; |
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but I expect lynx will prove more troublesome than squid in accessing |
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the rest of gopherspace... This could be a good thing though: lynx' fork |
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of libwww which enables it to access gopher is well maintained, people |
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do report bugs, and the author does a decent job fixing most of them... |
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Squid's fork of libwww gets far less bug reports and fixes, not knocking |
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them at all, it's just that nobody is interested sadly! |
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