- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2004 21:39:48 +0100
- To: uri@w3.org
John Cowan wrote:
>> gopher://dict.org:2628/?DEFINE%20*%20?WTF
> This last reminds me that finger and whois are also
> accessible via gopher URIs with explicit ports: they
> all have basically the same protocol: send a line to the
> server, get an arbitrary amount of plain text back.
My favourite "Mozilla 3" browser won't let me do it for
these ports. And it doesn't like %0D%0A for something
like HTTP OPTIONS. But <gopher://ietf.org:80/?GET%20/>
works (HTTP 0.9 style).
Lynx allows <gopher://ptbtime2.ptb.de:13/1>. Netscape
at least accepts <gopher://rwhois.nic.ve:4321/?>, but
not as URL, only as a manually entered "location".
For IE gopher was disabled by a "security update" last
year, but it could be reenabled in the registry somehow.
Bye, Frank
Received on Saturday, 6 November 2004 20:49:29 UTC