Re: Gopher over TLS

Glad to see you are still working on this (Sebastiaan)!
Interested in writing an RFC and submit it to the RFC Editor?

Cheers,
Emil

Am 12.05.20 um 05:41 schrieb Sean Conner:
> It was thus said that the Great Sebastiaan Deckers once stated:
>> FWIW, I drafted a spec of Gopher over TLS. Published the server and client
>> libraries and deployed them in production.
>>
>> https://gitlab.com/commonshost/goth#gopher-over-tls-got-protocol
> 
>    Not bad, I like it.  I also would *love* if the existing clients that
> attempt TLS over gopher would follow this bit:
> 
> 
> 	If the TCP/IP socket was successful but the attempt fails without
> 	receiving a ServerHello message, a GoT client may attempt to connect
> 	without TLS, treating the connection as plaintext Gopher. This
> 	failure may be cached for as long as the server's DNS records are
> 	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	valid.
> 	^^^^^
> 
> There's at least one client out there (I think it's a web-to-gopher proxy)
> that attempts to ust TLS *every damn time* it makes a request and frankly,
> I'm close to just outright blocking that IP address.  Once a day (the
> current TTL for 'gopher.conman.org') isn't bad, but *every single time* is
> just rude (in my opinion).
> 
>    -spc (My other pet peeve of gopher clients is the notion that every
> 	selector starts with a '/' ... )
>