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Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by mintplant on Sunday October 27, 2013 @06:15PM (#6623859)
Gopher+ does in fact resolve your second point by adding in a length header. All of your other points, with the exception of the TCP sliding window gripe, could be addressed through Gopher+ attribute fields. The Gopher+ specification [1] actually specified a "Mod-Date" field as part of the "+ADMIN" attribute, which could be used for caching. Even checksums could be added as well, through something like a "+SHA1" field.

Both the Overbite clients [2] and the Bucktooth server [3] support Gopher+. Pygopherd [4] also implements Gopher+. Many other clients support it as well; see a partial list in Floodgap's guide on using web browsers to access Gopherspace [5].

[1] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/tech/gopherplus.txt

[2] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite

[3] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/buck

[4] gopher://gopher.quux.org/0/devel/gopher/pygopherd/About%20Pygopherd.txt

[5] gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/wbgopher

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Re:Overbite - Gopher Client For Android by njsg on Monday October 28, 2013 @06:26PM (#6630278)
Gopher by itself is actually not hard to extend, as far as people standardize on how to extend it. That is why most of the discussions on "gopher enhancement" never resulted in big changes. Several ideas must be spread across the gopher project mailing list (now hosted at alioth, see archives at gmane), and some of them are quite good. The only consensus, though, seems to be that any extension is going to be done over plain gopher, not gopher+.
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