From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Mon Jul 30 04:37:00 2007 Subject: [gopher] Re: Problem with SiMpLeMaChInEs On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 09:09:23PM -0500, John Burnett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 03:07:01AM -0500, Chris wrote: > > Are we back on this non port 70 thing again? > > My 2 cents > > All Gopher clients need to be able to use ports other than port 70 > > all old ones did or they werent able to use the search engines, not to mention the rest of the servers not on 70, but we went over this already. > > The protocol allows and promotes non 70, if the client cant it is "bad" > > or limited at the least, use a better one so that you might be able to use gopherspace fully. > > In other countries they don't have linux, freebsd and the other free O.S's? > > I say we move em all off port 70 and keep them all guessin ;) > > Chris > > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:10:49 -0700 (PDT) > > JumpJet Mailbox <jumpjetinfo@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > Testing indicates that software expecting to see gopher on Port 70 will NOT translate to another port. > > > > > > BROWSERS: > > > > > > Bobcat for DOS will fail > > > Lynx for DOS will fail > > > Internet Explorer will NOT see your server, and will either give an error message (if attaching to a sub-directory) or crash the browser if connecting to the root directory. > > > Older versions of Lynx for Windows will fail [but upgrading to the newest version will work]. > > > Older versions of Firefox will fail [but upgrading to the newest version will work]. > > > The MSNTV (WebTV) browser will fail. > > > > > > GOPHER CLIENTS: > > > > > > Documentation indicates the Acorn Risk OS client will fail. > > > Documentation indicates the Atari MiNT client will fail. > > > Documentation indicates the IBM CMS mainframe clients will fail. > > > Documentation indicates the VAX mainframe client will fail. > > > The MOO object will fail > > > The AmigaOS client will fail. > > > The OS/2 client will fail. > > > All the Windows 3.1 clients tested so far have failed. > > > All the DOS clients tested so far have failed. snip..................... The site works fine with forg. The only browser that I have had problems with is w3m. Speaking of forg, anybody know how to adjust the text size? Thanks, John Burnett Sun Jul 29 21:09:08 CDT 2007 (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Problem with SiMpLeMaChInEs (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Problem with SiMpLeMaChInEs (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Problem with SiMpLeMaChInEs (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Problem with SiMpLeMaChInEs