The Internet Gopher. F.Anklesaria et.al., The Internet Gopher Protocol, Internet RFC 1436, March 1993. <URL: ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1436.txt>  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles

....handling. A proxy allows client writers to forget about the tens of thousands of lines of networking code necessary to support every protocol and concentrate on more important client issues it s possible to have lightweight clients that only understand HTTP (no native FTP [FTP] Gopher [GOPHER], etc. protocol support) other protocols are transparently handled by the proxy. By using HTTP between the client and proxy, no protocol functionality is lost, since FTP, Gopher, and other Web protocols map well into HTTP methods. Clients without DNS (Domain Name Service) can still use the ....

The Internet Gopher. F.Anklesaria et.al., The Internet Gopher Protocol, Internet RFC 1436, March 1993. <URL: ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1436.txt>

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