[gopher] Re: Gopher+ Suggestion

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > A problem fairly specific to Gopher is that many gopher clients
> > (especially ones in web browsers) don't support connections to ports other
> > than 70, because Gopher is _so_ flexible that it's possible to write
> 
> I haven't ever seen this.  Perhaps in Konqueror?  But then it doesn't
> support Gopher well anyway.  Maybe IE?  I seem to recall Cameron mentioning
> IE problems.

Yes, IE (at least in versions I've tried) does not allow connections on ports
other than 70. Netscape, Lynx, etc., don't seem to have this problem.

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