Re: Gopher over TLS

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 6:30 PM Cameron Kaiser <spectre-nb4sah8SP49Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:

> > - Trying to get web browser support for `gopher:` scheme links. Need to
> add
> > it to the WHATWG HTML specification. Some interest was expressed by
> > Mozillians; does anyone have Chromium contacts?
> > https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5343
>
> Strictly speaking, this is actually already in Firefox because I begged and
> pleaded, and they grandfathered it in. Without it OverbiteWX and OverbiteNX
> wouldn't even work.
>

Yes, the aim is very similar to OverbiteWX. Without installing any browser
extension. Also cross-browser compatible.

If gopher is whitelisted as a registerProtocolHandler protocol, users of
web/http proxies will not need to install a browser extension. (Could still
use the NX/Onyx concept to use a local proxy.)

Any website, like the Floodgap Proxy, could request the user's permission
to register itself as a `gopher:` protocol handler using a line of
JavaScript.