From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu>
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Subject: [gopher] Re: Uploading
In-Reply-To: <200210082314.37485.hardburn@runbox.com> from Timm Murray at "Oct
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To: gopher@complete.org
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 05:23:42 -0700 (PDT)
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> Are there any current standards for uploading via Gopher?  I'm working on a 
> new Gopher server and I'd like to have a nice, easy Perl command line program 
> for uploading new content, but many of the protocols used just aren't good 
> enough.  FTP opens a big security risk, TFTP is too primitive, and SCP's Perl 
> module doesn't support password authentication.  Gopher upload would make 
> everything integrate nicely.

I don't think any clients support it, but theoretically, you could do this
using ASK protocol over Gopher+. The thing is, you would need to roll your
own app, but that shouldn't be very difficult.

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