Overbite - Gopher Client For Android

Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by mindcrime on Sunday October 27, 2013 @01:58AM (#6620956)

Yeah, it's kind of a bummer how rare Gopher clients are becoming. Since all the major browsers dropped Gopher support (and I think they all have, by now), it appears that ELinks[1] is the best Gopher client remaining, for *nix systems. And Android has Overbite. Not sure about iOS.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks

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Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by fsiefken on Sunday October 27, 2013 @04:52AM (#6621316)

For iOS there is the free gopherbrowse "A small pittance is requested to defray the Apple developer tax". https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gopherbrowse/id478840815

For Elinks gopher support one needs to compile from source with the gopher option (it's not on by default). brew on osx doesn't download and compile the last 0.12 beta version (which includes gopher support). after: "brew upgrade elinks" it says: "elinks-0.11.7 already installed"

In the latest Ubuntu does install 0.12pre6 but it doesn't open gopher urls. Elinks documentation says: "It is still very experimental and the CSO phone-book protocol is not implemented. Default: disabled" http://chals.sdf.org/gopher.cgi/phlog/2012/10-14-12/

Lynx works out of the box though, but I prefer elinks as it is the last (to my knowledge) updated console browser and it has features like ipv6, scripting and some javascript support.

One can always use OverbiteFF plugin or use the gopher proxies.

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Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by dan1234 on Sunday October 27, 2013 @05:56AM (#6621439)

GopherBrowse is actually free in the AppStore. No pittance required, small or otherwise.

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Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by dan1234 on Sunday October 27, 2013 @04:36AM (#6621292)

For iOS, there's GopherBrowse[0]

[0]http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gopherbrowse/id478840815

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Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by erifneerg on Sunday October 27, 2013 @04:28AM (#6621267)

Overbite has a list of plugins and clients that work on most platforms.

http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/

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Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by boomlinde on Sunday October 27, 2013 @08:47PM (#6624418)

You could always resort to browsing using telnet or netcat, or write your own client in a few lines of your favorite language.

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Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by mindcrime on Sunday October 27, 2013 @09:54PM (#6624631)

True, but just using elinks works well enough for me.

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Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by njsg on Sunday October 27, 2013 @01:23PM (#6622607)

Older, gopher-specific clients, can be interesting, too. Some day I should try to get gopherVR running on my machines.

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