going straight into the gopher page

[David Griffith]

I noticed that if I type "gopher gopher.feedle.net" (that's my own
server), I get just one line "[1] Main menu/". To get to the actual front
page, I need to explicitly select that item.

If I do "gopher quux.org", I am immediately shown quux.org's main page.

What's wrong?
1) gophermap files?
2) wrong or missing parameter for gophernicus?
3) use pygopherd instead?

[Kim Holviala]

I noticed that if I type "gopher gopher.feedle.net" (that's my own server), I get just one line "[1] Main menu/". To get to the actual front page, I need to explicitly select that item.
If I do "gopher quux.org", I am immediately shown quux.org's main page.
What's wrong?

The "gopher" client uses gopher+ by default which is not really backwards-compatible with plain gopher. To make the client work *at all* most modern servers detect this particular client and present it a single gopher+ menu - the one you are seeing - which only purpose is point the client to the non-plus main menu.

Some servers (pygopherd?) support gopher+ so they work without the jump menu so I can only assume quux uses one of those servers.



- Kim