On 05/06/13 12:15, mick wrote:
You don't need a separate client these days. Most browsers will support gopher. Try: http://gopher.quux.org:70/ in the browser of your choice.
Chromium:
"Welcome to Gopherspace! You are browsing Gopher through a Web interface right now. You can use most browsers to browse Gopher natively. If your browser supports it, click here to see this page in Gopher directly. To find Gopher browsers, click here."
Clicking the first "click here" brings up a window "Chromium needs to launch an external application to handle gopher: links. {snip} The following application will be launched if you accept this request"
So to me, firstly the link you gave is a web interface onto a gopher server, so what the browser is doing web, not gopher. It then tries to load a plugin to handle gopher, so although it handles it, it doesn't handle it out-of-the-box as it were.
Firefox showed me the same first message, but clicking on the first "click here" failed.
Opera: Didn't work at all.
Clicking on the 2nd Click Here link takes me to http://quux.org:70/Software/Gopher/Downloads/Clients Which doesn't really list any up-to-date browsers that I can spot.
The reason I installed gopher, was because of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29#Native_Gopher_support
Which didn't list any browsers I had, that could natively handle gopher, and I reasoned that I could install and install a small app with more control & safety, than I could install or uninstall a browser plug-in, BICBW, YMMV! :-)
Steve