Gateway from Internet Gophers to TechInfo Services

This is a one way gateway from gopher protocol to TI protocol: gopher client connects to this server and makes a request, this program connects to a TechInfo server and gets the appropriate information, sends the response to the client, and then closes the connection.

Request from gopher client This program's response -------------------------- -----------------------

blank line Local TechInfo Server's main menu, WorldWide TechInfo, and, Univ of Minn Gopher

type tihost tiport tinodeid Results of Techinfo transaction

worldwide-techinfo List of TechInfo servers

Goph-TI-Gateway Document -- about this gopher

Examples: In these examples, HOST is the FQDN of the host that this program runs on, and PORT is the gopher port that this program is listening on (from inetd).

Input: blank line

Output: 0About this Gopher TAB Goph-TI-Gateway TAB HOST TAB PORT 1About PennInfo TAB M ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 836 TAB HOST PORT 0Today's Weather TAB D ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 7182 TAB HOST TAB PORT 1World wide TechInfo TAB worldwide-techinfo TAB HOST TAB PORT 1Univ of Minn Gopher TAB TAB gopher.micro.umn.edu TAB 70

Input: worldwide-techinfo

Output: 1MIT TAB M tiserve.mit.edu 9000 0 TAB HOST TAB PORT 1University of Oslo TAB M xantos.uio.no 9000 0 TAB HOST TAB PORT

Input: M ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 0

Output: 1About PennInfo TAB M ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 836 TAB HOST PORT 0Today's Weather TAB D ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 7182 TAB HOST TAB PORT

Input: D ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 7182

Output: {ascii text document}

Input: K ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 120 TAB internet gopher

Output: 0The Internet Gopher - What is it? TAB D ti-srv.upenn.edu 9000 3568 TAB HOST TAB PORT

This program is not standalone -- it's meant to be called from inetd.

READ the INSTALL and MAINT files to learn how to install and maintain the gateway.