[gopher] Re: Gopher+ Suggestion

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:31:54AM +0100, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> 
> A problem fairly specific to Gopher is that many gopher clients
> (especially ones in web browsers) don't support connections to ports other
> than 70, because Gopher is _so_ flexible that it's possible to write

I haven't ever seen this.  Perhaps in Konqueror?  But then it doesn't
support Gopher well anyway.  Maybe IE?  I seem to recall Cameron mentioning
IE problems.

> pretty much any simple instruction in any protocol as a Gopher request,
> which creates a security problem.

I'm not quite sure where the security problem is here.

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