Gopher

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Gopher is a predecesor to HTTP, defined in RFC 1436. It is essentially unused on today's Internet.

Contents 1 Identification 1.1 Ports 1.2 l7-filter 2 See also

[edit] Identification

[edit] Ports

Gopher servers usually listen on TCP port 70.

[edit] l7-filter

l7-filter uses the gopher pattern. It is well tested, However, the nature of the protocol prevents any pattern from being able to catch all connections.

[edit] See also

• Wikipedia's Gopher article
• A real live Gopher server (As of Aug 2006, apparently dead as of July 2007)