RE: Gopher

From: Martin Svarovsky (martin.svarovsky@ileo.cz)
Date: 26. 04. 2001, 13:11 CEST


>Zdravim,
>mam jeden zacatecnicky dotaz. K cemu je presne sluzba Gopher?
>Diky
>
No, je to jakysi _predchudce_ (??soubezny??) protokolu http. Provazani
dokumentu (menu) ve _stromy_, aby se jima dalo prochazet. A jsou k
tomu postaveny i seznamy a vyhledavace (Veronica).
Zkus se prokousat aspon uvodem treba tady
http://www.scn.org/~bkarger/gopher-manifesto
- najdes tam i linky na Gopher browsery

Nebo vybiram z RFC1689:
Basic Internet services such as electronic mail and anonymous FTP can
be used to share information across the Internet, but neither allows
simple browsing and neither is particularly easy for the newcomer to
learn to use. Gopher and the World Wide Web (W3) are two recent
developments that attempt to make it easier to distribute information
over the Internet. Both allow the user to browse information across
the network without the necessity of logging in or knowing in advance
where to look for information.

The Gopher project was first developed at the University of Minnesota
to provide a simple campus-wide on-line information system. Gopher
represents information as a simple hierarchy of menus and files. It
has limited capability to recognize different types of files,
allowing, for example, the display of selected types of image files.
Gateways to other services are provided (usually in a manner that is
transparent to the user). The underlying Gopher protocol is simple,
and has facilitated the creation of freely available clients for use
on a variety of hardware platforms and operating systems. The more
recent Gopher protocol adds the ability to provide documents in
alternate forms (PDF, PostScript, RTF, Word). These features and the
ease of installing and administering gopher servers has led to an
explosive growth of gopher sites since its initial deployment. As of
November 1993, there were over 2200 known servers.

Martin



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