[gopher] TLS situation in gopher [was: Re: Gophernicus 2.4 "Millennium Edition" released]

[Kim Holviala]

> On 07 Feb 2017, at 18:18, Jaruzel <jaruzel at jaruzel.com> wrote:
> 
> In article <20170207221841.2b60d3cc at mindloop.net>, driedfruit-pqpQE
> +7wlovk1uMJSBkQmQ at public.gmane.org says...
>> On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:40:00 +0200
>> Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 0About this project     /about.txt      gophernicus.org TLS:7070
>>> 
>>> But I'm quite certain some clients completely break down when handed
>>> a menu like that.
>> 
>> How about 7070:TLS, then? If they do something like atoi, without
>> any extra checks, could this work?
>> 
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to look at adding it as a Gopher+ extension? 
> Gopher+ may be badly designed, but it is already a standard, and has been 
> designed NOT to break classic Gopher only clients.

The offical Gopher+ client from UMN is so broken I had to detect it in the Gophernicus server code to make it work - dedicated code for just *one* client. If that's not "badly designed" I don't know what is.



- Kim