[gopher] Re: Gopher support in curl gone

[Philipp Schafft <lion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

reflum,
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 14:52 -0700, Jeff W wrote:
> Brian Koontz <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Despite having a version of curl on OS X (Panther) that supports
> > gopher, upon building the latest libcurl stuff on a Linux box, it
> > turns out that gopher hasn't been supported since at least 2006:
> >
> > 2006-02-16 20:19  danf
> >
> >         * docs/KNOWN_BUGS: Gopher is no longer supported
> 
> I actually contacted the curl developer/maintainer about this as their
> web site claims it's the most feature-rich of all the "non-interactive
> resource fetchers", while snarf(1) still supports gopher.  The response
> was that basically no one appeared to want it so it was dropped. 


> I'd suggest an email campain to get gopher support re-instated. ;)

Ok, then please tell me who to send a mail to in order to complain about
this.


> In the short-term I'll continue to use snarf[1].

*using the gopher packet of debian and his own code*


> [1] http://freshmeat.net/projects/snarf/

-- 
Philipp.
 (Rah of PH2)

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