It was, of course, inevitable that this would happen. After spinning up Port79 so that I could add finger support to Rogallo, it made sense that I start to think about Gopher support too. So here we go: Port70, a similar library for async interaction with Gopher servers.

This is going to be a bit of an adventure for me. While I'm long familiar with the existence of Gopher, and I'm fairly certain I used a client once or twice back in the 90s, I've never really had dealings with the protocol so know very little about it. Which is a good thing: something new (old?) to learn.

My plan with this is to add the GopherURI class to the list of URI types that Rogallo understands and handles and then provide a method of displaying and navigating the result. I think the cleanest and easiest way of doing this will be to add some code that transforms a menu response into gemtext and then just let the viewer widget display it as normal; each of the links in the menu being turned into gopher:// URIs.

This should be fun to play with. I'm looking forward to pulling it all together.