Gopher
Gopher , of the name of the American squirrel also called “Spermophile”, is a protocol of Internet. Developed by the university of the Minnesota for the consultation of information organized in the shape of a tree structure of hierarchical menus, it functions in character mode.
A widespread opinion defends the idea according to which it almost disappeared because of the threat of the university of Minnesota, in spring 1993, to ask royalties on the use of the protocol. Its decline supported the development of HTTP, the protocol at the base of the Web which, was free for him since the beginning. Within sight of these elements, the university of Minnesota released the source code of its software in connection with this protocol while placing them under the public License general GNU.
Today, to sail on sites Gopher, several free solutions exist: the navigator Mozilla Firefox starting from version 1.5, continuation Internet SeaMonkey, the navigator in mode text Lynx, the navigator especially developed for Mac OS X, Camino is among most known. Konqueror needs an extension like kio_gopher.
The navigator Safari cannot manage the Gopher pages. The support of Gopher for Internet Explorer 6 is decontaminated by defect since June 2002, date on which Microsoft, as indicated in their security bulletin MS02-047, corrected a critical flaw of its navigator using the Gopher protocol. However this functionality can be reactivated via the edition of register base. Version 7 of the navigator of Microsoft does not allow any more this reactivation, the implementation of the Gopher protocol having been removed on the level WinNet. The version Macintosh (only architecture PowerPC) of Internet Explorer manages the Gopher protocol.
Others
- the actor Fred Grandy played the part of Burl “Gopher” Smith in the series cruising has fun.
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