lots more Overbite! -- for SeaMonkey and Chrome
Cameron Kaiser
It's like more bars in more places, except these bars are subterranean and
have lots of tabs characters.
For those who don't know, Firefox 4.0 ends built-in Gopher support; I am
trying to keep up with the betas. 4.0b2 broke OverbiteFF, but the newest
version of OverbiteFF (2.0.1519) fixes that *and* adds support for SeaMonkey
2.0.x (2.1 support will come when the 2.1 betas are announced). If you are
still using 1.1, you'll love the new inline view support.
If you're mobile, try out the Overbite Android client -- Gopher from your
mobile Android device!
Finally, for Google Chrome users, even though Chrome extensions can't
access the network directly, they *can* intercept URLs with a little bit
of clever programming. Overbite Chrome allows you to enter gopher:// URLs
and have them forwarded to the proxy of your choice automatically, along
with transparently rewriting URLs in pages you visit to point to the proxy
as if the browser supported gopher in the first place. By default it uses
the Floodgap Public Gopher Proxy, but you can also try
Floodgap Public Gopher Proxy (default)
http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw.lite?
WikkaGopher GopherProxy
http://www.pongonova.org/gopherwiki/GopherProxy/gopher?uri=
gopherproxy.org
http://gopherproxy.org/
(enter these URLs in the extension's option page).
Your comments appreciated!
http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite/
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Aaron W. Hsu
plug-and-play gopher proxy to replace my Squid usage for Opera. Now it
looks like I have reason to do so so that Opera isn't left behind!
Aaron W. Hsu
Cameron Kaiser
>This is some great stuff. I've actually been wanting to make a
>plug-and-play gopher proxy to replace my Squid usage for Opera. Now it
>looks like I have reason to do so so that Opera isn't left behind!
If you do, I'm looking for a component to support Opera users (and a generic
plug'n'play proxy would actually support lots of people -- for example,
I can't do a Safari extension that does what the Chrome one does because
stupid Apple doesn't let their extensions intercept the address bar). I'll be
happy to add a link to whatever you come up with!
In the meantime, OverbiteFF is up to 2.0.1522, fixing a problem with locales
someone discovered and expanding the whitelist a bit. Sorry to keep pushing
out changes, but the Firefox beta has made this a little more urgent.
Aaron W. Hsu
>Aaron W. Hsu <arc...@sacrideo.us> writes:
>>This is some great stuff. I've actually been wanting to make a
>>plug-and-play gopher proxy to replace my Squid usage for Opera. Now it
>>looks like I have reason to do so so that Opera isn't left behind!
>If you do, I'm looking for a component to support Opera users (and a generic
>plug'n'play proxy would actually support lots of people -- for example,
>I can't do a Safari extension that does what the Chrome one does because
>stupid Apple doesn't let their extensions intercept the address bar). I'll be
>happy to add a link to whatever you come up with!
So, there are actually a number of different ways that you could address
this, and the best one for integration is a plug-and-play proxy.
However, you could also implement an Opera Unite application which is a
gopher browser. Another one is a Widget application, which could also do
Gopher browsing. Both of these strike me as the wrong application of
Widgets and Unite, so I'm going with the Proxy approach.
Aaron W. Hsu
Cameron Kaiser
Neat, I had no idea that there were that many approaches available. I'll
watch your work on it with interest.