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- WebGopher URL support
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- WebGopher can currently be configured to recognise three standard
- URL types. These are as follows :-
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- 1) Gopher URL types
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- These are the main URL types supported by this application.
- Gopher URLs have the form,
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- gopher://<site>:<port>/<type><selector>
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- '<site>' is the location of the gopher server. This MUST always be
- present.
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- ':<port>' specifies an optional gopher port. If this section of the
- URL is left out then the port defaults to '70'.
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- '/<type><selector>' are the index selector for the specified gopher
- site. <selector> can be missing, in which case the root gopher menu
- will be accessed. If the <type> field is missing (it MUST be present
- if there is a <selector> present) then the type defaults to '1' or
- the menu type.
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- So for example,
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- gopher://src.doc.ic.ac.uk
- gopher://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/
- gopher://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/1
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- all access the same gopher menu.
-
- Some good example gopher servers to try, follow :-
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- gopher://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/ - Useful UK based server with many links
- and access to Archimedes resources,
- including mirrors of Hensa, Demon and
- others.
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- gopher://gopher.tc.umn.edu/ - The root gopher system in the states.
- Many, many useful links can be found
- here. There is a useful route to
- library servers around the world
- accessable via this server.
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- gopher://veronica.scs.unr.edu/-The root veronica server. You can
- search all 5000 gopher servers, world
- wide from here.
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- 2) Telnet URLs
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- Support for these is limited at present, and their usage is still
- experimental. To be safe, just use the simple form of Telnet URL.
- telnet://<site>:<port>/
- Where <site> and <port> are handled in the same way as above.
- If no port is supplied it defaults to the standard telnet port.
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- 3) FTP URLs
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- Support for these is very limited at the moment. They are only
- supported by the usage of a proxy machine. This proxy machine
- handles file fetching and WWW page creation.
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- There is NO direct FTP support at this stage as there is no
- suitable interface to it and WebGopher is an experimental
- application anyway.
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- Any files obtained will be 'dumped' into the !GopherRes resource
- handler.
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- For further infomation on URLs I would advise you to read through
- RFC-1738, which is available from Demon ftp.
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