Tunnelling with Gopher (University of Minnesota)

• Hierarchical menus (interface resembles a file system)
• Easy to install, administer, and use
• Clients available for a variety of platforms
• Requires intelligent construction of menus
• Potentially lots of "dead ends" (maintenance issue)
• Indexing engines: Veronica ("an archie for gopher"), Jughead
• Uses port #70 by default
• The (stateless) Gopher Protocol
• The Gopher+ Protocol
• Server Considerations