[gopher] Re: [Paul Lindner <lindner@xxxxxxxxx>] Re: overriding portions of the http protocol?

[Paul Lindner <lindner@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:37:27AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> FYI... Paul is working on a Gopher module for Apache!  (Woohoo!)

I also have a few modifications to the UofMN gopher package.

Basically I converted all the build cruft to use automake, move
gopher/gophfilt into a single 'client' directory and am ripping out
portions of the server code that make little sense in this day and
age..  (AUTH* stuff for instance.)

I notice that I've done some similar fixups for the debian fixes
already done..  sys_errlist etc..

I'll have a look at the CVS repository and start posting some RFCs for
my potential changes..

BTW -- Is there an archive for this list?

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> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:53:24PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Paul,
> > 
> > A friend of mine forwarded me your post to apache dev list:
> > 
> > > I'm playing with Apache 2.0's multiprotocol features.  I'm
> > > starting by porting the old U of MN gopher server code to work
> > > as a module.  I'm using the ap_hook_process_connection()
> > > function to call my own routines.
> > 
> > I would encourage you to start from a new codebase.  UMN gopherd has a
> > lot of problems, not the least of which are security ones.  I don't
> > know a lot about the Apache API, but if you could use Apache's MIME
> > magic to determine file types, that would bring you a *long* way to
> > replacing the weakest part of gopherd -- figuring out what to serve
> > files as.  You'd probably have to do some simple munging to generate
> > gopher0 filetype characters.
> 
> It looks like it won't be too hard to use Apache as a generic protocol
> engine.  We should be able to use much of the Apache code base to make
> a very nice server.  For example we can eliminate all the logging and
> much of the authentication code right off the bat..
> 
> > You might check out the latest codebase from CVS.  A few of us are
> > working on it (very) periodically.  See
> > gopher://gopher.quux.org/00/devel/gopher/AnonCVS.txt for details.
> 
> Hmm, I get 
> 
> CVS password: 
> cvs [login aborted]: recv() from server pi.complete.org: Connection reset by 
> peer
> 
> If you need help hosting this thing let me know.  I am running my own
> cvs service on my 1.1Mbps business-grade DSL link..  (along with other
> services..)
> 
> > There is also a mailing list at gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx.  (Subscribe via
> > gopher-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx)  I'd like to forward your message there
> > and CC our conversation to the list if it's OK.
> 
> just did,  CC away :)
> 
> 
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