1Return /chan/tech/archive khzae.net 70 i fake (NULL) 0 i##29 2018-07-24(Tue)10:10:27 (archived 2019-10-05(Sat)20:37:45) fake (NULL) 0 i_____________________________________________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iCan Gopher do everything the Web does? fake (NULL) 0 i_____________________________________________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)10:15:07 #238]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iThe Gopher protocol is often compared with the Web, and there fake (NULL) 0 ihave been people experimenting on gopherspace with things that are fake (NULL) 0 ireminiscent on the web. There are chans, phlogs, phikis, etc. But fake (NULL) 0 ican gopher really do what the Web can? fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)10:15:27 #239]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iAnd what are Gopher's limitations? fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)10:44:20 #240]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iGopher is like the GET portion of HTTP. It is designed for users fake (NULL) 0 ito query and find information, but not really to submit/edit data. fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)11:14:52 #241]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iIt's hard to say because the Web is a mix of multiple fake (NULL) 0 itechnologies. You can serve HTML/CSS/JS/Flash/etc over Gopher fake (NULL) 0 itoo. And the protocol is agnostic enough that you *can* emulate most fake (NULL) 0 iof what the Web does, but whether you *should* is a different matter. fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)14:08:21 #242]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 i@241 Okay, but how do you mean about the Web being multiple fake (NULL) 0 itechnologies if its just HTTP and HTML? And if things like CSS and fake (NULL) 0 iFlash is implemented on Gopher, how would they look like? fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)15:21:17 #243]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 i@242 HTTP, HTML, CSS, JS, are multiple, distinct things that make fake (NULL) 0 iup "The Web". And they would look the same. You don't have to fake (NULL) 0 i"implement" them, a Gopher response can contain any kind of data, fake (NULL) 0 iits up to the client to make sense of it. fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)15:25:09 #244]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 hHTML page with CSS and JS /misc/demo.html khzae.net 70 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)15:43:33 #245]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iTo quickly compare gopher with HTTP: an HTTP request/response has: fake (NULL) 0 i1. The method (GET, POST...) 2. The selector (/some/page.html) fake (NULL) 0 i3. Headers (Host: foobar.com, Content-type: text/html), 4. The fake (NULL) 0 ibody. A gopher request is only #2 and a response is only #4. fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)15:46:47 #246]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iThere is only one "method", and the server doesn't send any fake (NULL) 0 iinfo like "Content-type: text/html" (i.e. telling the client fake (NULL) 0 ihow to render the data), that is encoded in the link to the data fake (NULL) 0 i(e.g. gopher://khzae.net/1/chan, the 1 means "display as a menu") fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)15:49:02 #247]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 0If you change that character, the client will handle it differently /chan/tech/29 khzae.net 70 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)18:22:53 #248]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iI see. How would CSS ans JavaScript would work on a gophermap, fake (NULL) 0 inot HTML. How would Flash and video look like on Gopher? fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)23:33:58 #249]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iTechnically the "gophermap" doesn't exist (to the client), it is fake (NULL) 0 itranslated in to a gopher menu. And I don't know of any attempts fake (NULL) 0 ito mix CSS or JS with a gopher menu. TBH I wouldn't want that, fake (NULL) 0 iI like that "style" is uniform and up to the client in gopher fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)23:36:25 #251]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 ;Here's a video someone posted in /misc/ /chan/misc/1/file_1481120569.webm khzae.net 70 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)23:38:16 #252]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iMost gopher clients probably won't play it inside them, but hand fake (NULL) 0 iit off to a video player application or simply download it. But fake (NULL) 0 iif you view it over this server's HTTP gateway (which is a sort of fake (NULL) 0 ispecial gopher client), it should play in your web browser fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-24(Tue)23:38:44 #253]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 hHTTP gateway version URL:http://khzae.net/;/chan/misc/1/file_1481120569.webm khzae.net 70 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-07-25(Wed)12:43:13 #254]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iIt can do everything useful that the web does... fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2018-11-06(Tue)13:22:09 #343]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iAt 254: Gopher still doesn't have anything close to Amazon. If fake (NULL) 0 ithey had a marketplace (doubtful as it conflicts with Gopher's fake (NULL) 0 inon-commercial nature), I would likely abandon most of the WWW. fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2019-03-29(Fri)12:14:31 #418]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iI hope that gopher does not turn into another www. fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2019-04-09(Tue)13:38:08 #427]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iinteresting fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2019-04-27(Sat)12:24:04 #440]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 i><> J fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2019-05-27(Mon)19:09:00 #455]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iIf you want Web3.0 faggotry you know where to find it. If text fake (NULL) 0 ishitposting isn't good enough for you you should go outside. Fags fake (NULL) 0 iwanting muh 300MB swfs and 100 more MB of JS on their personal fake (NULL) 0 ipages just to display shitty emo poetry killed the web. fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0 i__[2019-07-26(Fri)08:33:45 #513]______________________________________ fake (NULL) 0 iGopher is super fast over Tor, while bloated websites take forever fake (NULL) 0 ito load. Tor and gopher were made for each other. fake (NULL) 0 i fake (NULL) 0