Gopher Client
Free
2018.8for iPhone, iPad and more
8.5
26 Ratings
Charles Childers
Developer
1.6 MB
Size
Aug 22, 2018
Update Date
Utilities
Category
17+
Age Rating
Age Rating
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About Gopher Client
"gopher n. 1. Any of various short tailed, burrowing mammals of the family Geomyidae, of North America. 2. (Amer. colloq.) Native or inhabitant of Minnesota: the Gopher State. 3. (Amer. colloq.) One who runs errands, does odd-jobs, fetches or delivers documents for office staff. 4. (computer tech.) software following a simple protocol for burrowing through a TCP/IP internet."
- From RFC 1436 describing Gopher
Way back in the early 1990's, Gopher was a major part of the internet. Over the years it has waned, but there are still quite a few Gopher servers running.
This is is a modern Gopher browser for iOS. Built from the ground up, it lets you access the wealth of data available via Gopher from your favorite devices.
What this offers:
- Clean, browser style user interface
- Access to Gopher servers
- Supports text files, images, directories
- Opens WWW links in Safari
- Supports Veronica-2, Contrition, and other search systems for searching the Gopherspace
- Bookmarks
- Adjustable text size & optional "reflow" of text documents for improved readability
Limitations:
- This does not support binary files other than images
- This does not support the non-standard Gopher+ extensions, or CSO selectors
- From RFC 1436 describing Gopher
Way back in the early 1990's, Gopher was a major part of the internet. Over the years it has waned, but there are still quite a few Gopher servers running.
This is is a modern Gopher browser for iOS. Built from the ground up, it lets you access the wealth of data available via Gopher from your favorite devices.
What this offers:
- Clean, browser style user interface
- Access to Gopher servers
- Supports text files, images, directories
- Opens WWW links in Safari
- Supports Veronica-2, Contrition, and other search systems for searching the Gopherspace
- Bookmarks
- Adjustable text size & optional "reflow" of text documents for improved readability
Limitations:
- This does not support binary files other than images
- This does not support the non-standard Gopher+ extensions, or CSO selectors
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What's New in the Latest Version 2018.8
Last updated on Aug 22, 2018
Old Versions
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
This is a small update that improves the display of menus that contain non-standard document types.
This is a small update that improves the display of menus that contain non-standard document types.
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Version History
2018.8
Aug 22, 2018
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
This is a small update that improves the display of menus that contain non-standard document types.
This is a small update that improves the display of menus that contain non-standard document types.
2018.6
Jun 20, 2018
This version fixes a bug causing crashes when loading Gopher indexes with certain invalid line ending. It also corrects some display issues when using certain fonts.
2018.2
Feb 23, 2018
- fix crashes when searching for non-ASCII characters.
- fix display of directories with servers that do not send the proper line endings
- fix settings display on iPad
- recognizes errors (type 3)
- fix display of directories with servers that do not send the proper line endings
- fix settings display on iPad
- recognizes errors (type 3)
2018.1
Jan 1, 2018
This release is intended to improve the browsing experience.
- Selectors that do not start with a leading / should work now
- Added a "back" button
- Selectable fonts!
- Ability to view images at actual size or scaled to fit display
- Selectors that do not start with a leading / should work now
- Added a "back" button
- Selectable fonts!
- Ability to view images at actual size or scaled to fit display
2017.12.22
Dec 22, 2017
One last update before Christmas.
This update fixes an issue that was causing selectors ending with a ? to be sent improperly. It also fixes a bug that was causing some non-traditional port numbers to be parsed incorrectly.
Previously:
- adds a setting to allow toggle of wrapping text in directory view
- further tweaks to line height in directory view
- history is now shown in order from newest to oldest
- history now includes manually entered directories
- visited data files now show in the history as well
- a bug in the text display on the when adjusting font size was resolved
- fixed some issues with line height in the directory view
- info text in directories now wraps instead of cutting off (thanks @apiarian)
- all standard selectors now recognized (though I don't have viewers for all of them)
- HTML files now convert to text and display w/the text viewer (URL: links w/type h open in Safari as before)
- p for PNG is now recognized (used on Floodgap)
- Telnet links now work if you have a Telnet client installed
This update fixes an issue that was causing selectors ending with a ? to be sent improperly. It also fixes a bug that was causing some non-traditional port numbers to be parsed incorrectly.
Previously:
- adds a setting to allow toggle of wrapping text in directory view
- further tweaks to line height in directory view
- history is now shown in order from newest to oldest
- history now includes manually entered directories
- visited data files now show in the history as well
- a bug in the text display on the when adjusting font size was resolved
- fixed some issues with line height in the directory view
- info text in directories now wraps instead of cutting off (thanks @apiarian)
- all standard selectors now recognized (though I don't have viewers for all of them)
- HTML files now convert to text and display w/the text viewer (URL: links w/type h open in Safari as before)
- p for PNG is now recognized (used on Floodgap)
- Telnet links now work if you have a Telnet client installed
2017.12.21
Dec 21, 2017
Trying to make this as good as possible before the rapidly approaching holidays, here's another update with a few more improvements and bug fixes.
- adds a setting to allow toggle of wrapping text in directory view
- further tweaks to line height in directory view
- history is now shown in order from newest to oldest
- history now includes manually entered directories
- visited data files now show in the history as well
Previously:
- a bug in the text display on the when adjusting font size was resolved
- fixed some issues with line height in the directory view
- info text in directories now wraps instead of cutting off (thanks @apiarian)
- all standard selectors now recognized (though I don't have viewers for all of them)
- HTML files now convert to text and display w/the text viewer (URL: links w/type h open in Safari as before)
- p for PNG is now recognized (used on Floodgap)
- Telnet links now work if you have a Telnet client installed
- adds a setting to allow toggle of wrapping text in directory view
- further tweaks to line height in directory view
- history is now shown in order from newest to oldest
- history now includes manually entered directories
- visited data files now show in the history as well
Previously:
- a bug in the text display on the when adjusting font size was resolved
- fixed some issues with line height in the directory view
- info text in directories now wraps instead of cutting off (thanks @apiarian)
- all standard selectors now recognized (though I don't have viewers for all of them)
- HTML files now convert to text and display w/the text viewer (URL: links w/type h open in Safari as before)
- p for PNG is now recognized (used on Floodgap)
- Telnet links now work if you have a Telnet client installed
2017.12.18
Dec 17, 2017
"This release brings bug fixes and improvements."
Seriously though:
- a bug in the text display on the when adjusting font size was resolved
- fixed some issues with line height in the directory view
- info text in directories now wraps instead of cutting off (thanks @apiarian)
- all standard selectors now recognized (though I don't have viewers for all of them)
- HTML files now convert to text and display w/the text viewer (URL: links w/type h open in Safari as before)
- p for PNG is now recognized (used on Floodgap)
- Telnet links now work if you have a Telnet client installed
Seriously though:
- a bug in the text display on the when adjusting font size was resolved
- fixed some issues with line height in the directory view
- info text in directories now wraps instead of cutting off (thanks @apiarian)
- all standard selectors now recognized (though I don't have viewers for all of them)
- HTML files now convert to text and display w/the text viewer (URL: links w/type h open in Safari as before)
- p for PNG is now recognized (used on Floodgap)
- Telnet links now work if you have a Telnet client installed
2017.12.13
Dec 14, 2017
This release fixes a few bugs that were reported:
- Settings view on iPhone was being cut off improperly when in landscape orientation
- Text display sample in Settings was editable; this is now fixed
- Default Home URL was not set properly in some cases
- Launch screen did not display properly in landscape orientation
Following up on the last update, this brings back a few things that were briefly lost and some new functionality as well.
- Restores support for animated GIF images
- Restores support for setting the "Home" URI
- Adds a Settings view allowing setting "Home" and the font size for directories & text files
- Adds a new "Reflow" mode to the text file viewer that makes documents nicer to read on small screen targets.
- Settings view on iPhone was being cut off improperly when in landscape orientation
- Text display sample in Settings was editable; this is now fixed
- Default Home URL was not set properly in some cases
- Launch screen did not display properly in landscape orientation
Following up on the last update, this brings back a few things that were briefly lost and some new functionality as well.
- Restores support for animated GIF images
- Restores support for setting the "Home" URI
- Adds a Settings view allowing setting "Home" and the font size for directories & text files
- Adds a new "Reflow" mode to the text file viewer that makes documents nicer to read on small screen targets.
2017.12.12
Dec 12, 2017
Following up on the last update, this brings back a few things that were briefly lost and some new functionality as well.
- Restores support for animated GIF images
- Restores support for setting the "Home" URI
- Adds a Settings view allowing setting "Home" and the font size for directories & text files
- Adds a new "Reflow" mode to the text file viewer that makes documents nicer to read on small screen targets.
- Restores support for animated GIF images
- Restores support for setting the "Home" URI
- Adds a Settings view allowing setting "Home" and the font size for directories & text files
- Adds a new "Reflow" mode to the text file viewer that makes documents nicer to read on small screen targets.
2017.12
Dec 11, 2017
Happy Holidays!
This release is a major update to the premier Gopher client for iOS.
What's new?
- New user interface, splitting the toolbar to make things less crowded on smaller screen targets
- Activity indicator in lower right corner
- RFC4266 URI support
- Completely new network handling code that's significantly faster and much more reliable
- Type-specific viewers for text and image documents
This release is a major update to the premier Gopher client for iOS.
What's new?
- New user interface, splitting the toolbar to make things less crowded on smaller screen targets
- Activity indicator in lower right corner
- RFC4266 URI support
- Completely new network handling code that's significantly faster and much more reliable
- Type-specific viewers for text and image documents
2017.10
Oct 10, 2017
Building on the previous work, this update brings some big improvements:
- caching of recently visited directories and documents
- stability improvements
- fixed some connection issues
- bookmarks
- integrated ability to search w/Veronica-2 or (optionally) Contrition
- support for animated GIF images
- caching of recently visited directories and documents
- stability improvements
- fixed some connection issues
- bookmarks
- integrated ability to search w/Veronica-2 or (optionally) Contrition
- support for animated GIF images
2017.9
Sep 19, 2017
It's time for an update. This release of Gopher brings:
- new icon by Arland Childers
- rewritten document identification and gophermap parser
- display fixes
- optional VT220 inspired font
- support for ports other than 70
- fixed several bugs causing occasional crashes
- new icon by Arland Childers
- rewritten document identification and gophermap parser
- display fixes
- optional VT220 inspired font
- support for ports other than 70
- fixed several bugs causing occasional crashes
2017.7.1
Jul 10, 2017
This release fixes a bug in submitting Gopher search requests. It should now work with any standard search servers.
2017.7
Jun 26, 2017
Add a dark color theme. (Settings.app -> Gopher -> Dark Theme).
2017.6.1
Jun 12, 2017
Fixed some rendering bugs. The URL box now has a clear button to make entering a new URL easier.
Added a keyboard shortcut for reloading the page (for users with hardware keyboards)
Added a keyboard shortcut for reloading the page (for users with hardware keyboards)
2017.6
Jun 7, 2017
Gopher Client FAQ
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Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Gopher Client.
iPhone
Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 9.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 9.0 or later.
Gopher Client supports English
