gopherd
(ver 3.0.5)
Freeware
The University of Minnesota no longer develops its Gopher Server "gopherd".
The source code has been taken over by John Goerzen, the owner of quux.org,
who then continued to develop gopherd on his own for use under "debian" unix.
John had decided to stop further development of gopherd, so this is the last
version. The last official UMN version of gopherd was 2.3.1, which I am still
making available in the selector titled "UMN gopherd".
Please note that this software also contains the old UMN VMS client and a new
version of the Gopher+ Curses Client for UNIX machines. As I am unable to
separate the Server and Client components, I am placing this entire software
package under both the "Unix-based" server and client selectors.
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From: John Goerzen
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:46:39 -0500
Subject: [gopher] UMN Gopher 3.0.6 released
Hello,
I have made the release of Gopher 3.0.6.
The big change with this version is that UMN gopherd has been removed from
the distribution. This change was made for the following reasons:
1. Many other capable servers exist. PyGopherd specifically supports
UMN in an often bug-compatible way, and no development effort has been
expended on gopherd in quite some time.
2. Security problems continue to be found in the legacy gopherd code, and
due to the development on more modern servers, nobody has the time to
make a comprehensive security audit of gopherd.
3. New features are more easily added to other servers, and the gopherd
codebase thus has languished since other servers have appeared.
UMN Gopher, the Gopher client, continues to be part of the distribution.
The last version of Gopher containing gopherd is preserved on the Gopher
site at
http://quux.org/devel/gopher/Downloads/old as well as the Subversion
repository. Anyone interested in maintaining gopherd may contact me, and I
would be happy to help you fork it.
I am designating PyGopherd as the upgrade path for current users of gopherd.
There are other quality Gopher servers out there; the reason I say this is
because PyGopherd has the most complete support for UMN-style .Links, .cap,
etc. files. PyGopherd may be obtained from
http://quux.org/devel/gopher/pygopherd.
***
*** All versions of UMN gopherd currently deployed have known security bugs
*** and users are advised to switch to PyGopherd ASAP.
***
Gopher 3.0.6 may be obtained from
http://quux.org/devel/gopher.
-- John
