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Okay, this is really cool. I need to look at gopher more closely now.
---Reply #48
I had a look at the protocol and have a question. How does one go about setting up a .onion mirror? Since the server doesn't know what hostname has used to access it, how does it know what host to use in links?
---Reply #49
Do you just host a mirror on a different port and point the .onion at that?
---Reply #50
Aargh. I can't fix my typos. I'll have to pay closer attention in the future
---Reply #51
Hey, I think the bitreich.org gophers have a lot of instruction and tooling for this, such as someodd's burrow helper program. 1/2
---Reply #52
2/2 in terms of tor / onion, you host a gopher on localhost on your server, and there is a config file that tells tor to make that port accessible over onion. You have to provide the cryptographic key (there are instructions)
---Reply #53
Oh I see, I read 48 a little further. I guess according to the RFC you would need to put the onion address in the server position. Normally gopher servers fill that in for you, I guess there's a flag to set somewhere.
---Reply #58
Yeah, my question was about how the server knows which hostname to use in the links, since there's nothing in the rrquest to tell it which was used.
---Reply #59
The only way I can see to do it is to have the .onion version listening on a different port.
---Reply #61
regarding the onion thing, I phlogged about doing gopher reverse proxy magic with xinetd
---Reply #62
(TXT) gopher-routing.gopher.txt (gopher.someodd.zip)
---Reply #63
(TXT) gopher-routing.gopher.txt (someodd.zip)
---Reply #69
Both of those links seem to be broken. :( Also, how did you add a link?
---Reply #70
1Testing...
---Reply #71
yes I have a bug with my gopher reverse proxy. I am going to update it and the phorum software
---Reply #72
post links by just making a gopher URI the message
---Reply #75
1is that right? inb4 I can't remember rfc1436
---Reply #89
(HTM) rfc4266 (datatracker.ietf.org)
---Reply #91
@81 fixed
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