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diff --git a/net/pygopherd/pkg-descr b/net/pygopherd/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6e115ed1f1c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/net/pygopherd/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +PyGopherd is a modern dynamic multi-protocol hierarchical information server +with a pluggable modularized extension system, full flexible caching, virtual +files and folders, and autodetection of file types -- all with support for +standardized yet extensible per-document metadata. + +PyGopherd is designed to serve up files using the Gopher Internet protocol. +With Gopher, you can mount a filesystem (viewing files and folders as if they +were local), browse Gopherspace with a web browser, download files, and be +interactive with searching. + +But this is only part of the story. The world of Gopher is more expansive than +this. There are two major gopher protocols: Gopher0 (also known as RFC1436) +and Gopher+. PyGopherd supports both. + +PyGopherd also fully natively supports HTTP, the protocol used on the Internet +for most Web transactions. So, you can access a PyGopherd server using anything +from a small, 20-line client in mobile phone to a massive 50-MB web browser. + +WWW: http://www.quux.org/devel/gopher/pygopherd/ |