Re: Gopher over TLS

I believe it was related to "the URL standard" dropping gopher: https://github.com/whatwg/url/pull/453

On May 13, 2020 2:22:35 AM UTC, Cameron Kaiser <[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.)
>
>This used to work. I don't know what regressed it.
>
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