Gopher Client2018.8

"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

Version History This is a small update that improves the display of menus that contain non-standard document types. 2018.8 08/22/2018 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. 2018.6 06/20/2018 - 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) 2018.2 02/23/2018 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 2018.1 01/01/2018 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 2017.12.22 12/22/2017 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 2017.12.21 12/21/2017 "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 2017.12.18 12/17/2017 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. 2017.12.13 12/14/2017 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. 2017.12.12 12/12/2017 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 2017.12 12/11/2017 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 2017.10 10/10/2017 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 2017.9 09/19/2017 This release fixes a bug in submitting Gopher search requests. It should now work with any standard search servers. 2017.7.1 07/10/2017 Add a dark color theme. (Settings.app -> Gopher -> Dark Theme). 2017.7 06/26/2017 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) 2017.6.1 06/12/2017 2017.6 06/07/2017