[gopher] Re: Gopher proxy rendering on smartphone

[Brian Koontz <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:38:02PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> Brian Koontz wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 02:32:09PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> >> Brian Koontz wrote:
> >>> Three words to sum things up:  Fast, compact, and easily navigable!
> >>> (Four words, sorry...)  Screw WAP and whatever else passes for
> >>> butchering HTML pages...gopher is the way to go.  I'm already thinking
> >>> of ways to proxify existing HTML content into gopher...
> >> I don't know if you were aware, but PyGopherd will automatically serve
> >> up its gopher documents as WAP to cellphones.  Point your phone at
> >> quux.org and enjoy.
> > 
> > That's cool...but...
> > 
> > "The requested page cannot be displayed."
> > 
> > Looks like a redirect to gopher.quux.org:70.  Seems to come up fine in
> > a PC-based browser.
> 
> Yes, that redirect is correct.  I wonder if your provider is blocking
> port 70.

It turns out that the AT&T MediaNet connection *does* proxy the
connection...a simple change to the "Operator" connection results in a
proxyless connection.

Very slick presentation at quux.org on the Nokia browser!  Looks like
the next thing I'll do with the proxy is try to implement something
similar. 

  --Brian