{ ake.crabdance.com : phlog : gopher is broken } Well, article name is clickbait-y a bit, but I just gonna describe stuff gopher doing awful, as protocol and as internet browsing alternative Main `````````` * error handling is broken, you cannot say anything other than - i have (or haven't) got something via selector * client determines how to interpret response (how to display and how to handle binary files, etc) * client interaction restricted to search form -- you cannot update smth in gopher via gopher, also you cannot restrict access easily on per-viewer basis Not critical, but bad things ````````````````````````````` * No virtual hosts support * No relative links * Cumbersome non-spec info-tags * No redirects * Fixed semi-menu docs breaking on various client width (DIR) back to phlog (DIR) back to index