Gopher access with WAP/GPRS enabled or 3G phones?

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has tested and possibly had success accessing
Gopher sites using current generation WAP/GPRS enabled mobile phones or
current 3G phones, and if they have had any success.
I am especially interested if Gopher proxies can work if direct Gopher
access does not.
Given the simplicity of Gopher sites, it seems that they display well
on small displays, can anyone comment?

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As far as I am aware, no mobile web browser supports the Gopher protocol.
In any case, Gopher is long dead.
Perhaps there is some kind of Gopher->HTTP (e.g. WAP) translator that would
work.

[email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone has tested and possibly had success accessing
> Gopher sites using current generation WAP/GPRS enabled mobile phones or
> current 3G phones, and if they have had any success.
> I am especially interested if Gopher proxies can work if direct Gopher
> access does not.
> Given the simplicity of Gopher sites, it seems that they display well
> on small displays, can anyone comment?

I haven't heard of Gopher for about 10 years. Is it really still
prevalent enough that it's a useful resource? (this is a serious Q)

[email protected] wrote:
> I haven't heard of Gopher for about 10 years. Is it really still
> prevalent enough that it's a useful resource? (this is a serious Q)

No. Although, I cannot imagine a more appropriate place to ask, than
usenet :-)

Jonathan Wilson <[email protected]> writes:

>As far as I am aware, no mobile web browser supports the Gopher protocol.
>In any case, Gopher is long dead.
>Perhaps there is some kind of Gopher->HTTP (e.g. WAP) translator that would
>work.

http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/

(note HTTP protocol)

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On 2006-08-08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone has tested and possibly had success accessing
> Gopher sites using current generation WAP/GPRS enabled mobile phones or
> current 3G phones, and if they have had any success.
> I am especially interested if Gopher proxies can work if direct Gopher
> access does not.
> Given the simplicity of Gopher sites, it seems that they display well
> on small displays, can anyone comment?

PyGopherd has built-in WAP/WML support. Try it at gopher.quux.org.

-- John

I know that the gopher server I currently use, pygopherd, is purported
to work well with Wap phones, but I really have no gopher client on my
phone to try it out. I have a windows mobile phone and I look at the
information on my gopher server through a http gateway that pygopherd
provides.

You might want to know that most documents on gopher servers have
hard-coded carriage returns (relic of the times) and they won't wrap
nicely on small screens like clean html does. I personally wrapped my
lines at fifty characters, but I don't recall there being any
particular standard.

I figure that if you want a good WAP experience, your best bet would be
to use good ol' HTML (without modern trickery like css or invisible
tables) so that the browser can wrap the text as it likes. for a good
tutorial on how not to do this, visit nearly any modern site with your
phone and see how bad your experience is. Visit an older site and
suddenly things look much nicer! There is no trick to making a page
that looks good on a wap browser - write them in basic, raw HTML by
hand without any formatting tricks and it will look just fine.

Jay Nemrow


[email protected] wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone has tested and possibly had success accessing
> Gopher sites using current generation WAP/GPRS enabled mobile phones or
> current 3G phones, and if they have had any success.
> I am especially interested if Gopher proxies can work if direct Gopher
> access does not.
> Given the simplicity of Gopher sites, it seems that they display well
> on small displays, can anyone comment?
>
> --
> mattabat