[Python-Dev] More deprecations (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:38:35 -0500 

Guido> Is the gopher protocol really dead?

Neal> [gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/v2/vstat](https://mdsite.deno.dev/gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/v2/vstat)

Neal> says it could find "555 unique servers (counting host and port
Neal> pairs)."

Recent versions of Opera don't support gopher directly. I tried clicking the above link and Opera said:

The address type requires the use of a proxy server.

While it may not technically be dead, it certainly appears it's pulse is weak.

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