gopher

authors:

~benharri


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tilde.club now serves gopher! we’re using gophernicus as our gopherd.

user pages are served from your ~/public_gopher dirs and can be accessed at gopher://tilde.club/1/~username. note that the itemtype 1 is required.

basic gophermap syntax §

files named gophermap are the gopher equivalent to index.html. each line in a gophermap consists of the following parts separated by literal tab characters:

  • item type
  • display name
  • selector
  • host
  • port

for example:

1tildeclub<tab>/<tab>tilde.club<tab>70

basic item types include:

  • 0 - text file
  • 1 - directory
  • 7 - search query
  • 9 - binary file
  • g - gif image
  • h - html file
  • i - info text
  • I - generic image file (not a gif)

gophernicus also supports the following special types:

  • # - comment

  • !title - only valid on the first line

  • -file - hide file from listings

  • :ext=type - change filetype

  • ~ - include a list of users with a valid ~/public_gopher

  • =mapfile - include or execute a script or gophermap

  • - - stop processing gophermap and include file listing

  • . - stop processing gophermap (default)

additional resources §

see gophernicus’ gophermap documentation for more info on available item types and other special selectors.

if you’re completely new to gopher, check out the gopher zone!