Gopher Proxy was created by Stephen Morley. The majority of the coding was completed at the start of Autumn 2009. Gopher Proxy runs on a server with a 2.1 GHz quad-core Opteron 2372 HE processor, 4 GB of RAM, and four 500 GB disks in a RAID 6 configuration.
The following table summarises Gopher Proxy’s support for the various Gopher content types:
| Type | Defined in | Description | Gopher Proxy support |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1, 3 | Text | Fully supported |
| 1 | 1, 3 | Menu | Fully supported |
| 2 | 1, 3 | CSO search | No support planned |
| 3 | 1, 3 | Error message | Fully supported |
| 4 | 1, 3 | BinHex file | |
| 5 | 1, 3 | Binary archive | Fully supported |
| 6 | 1, 3 | uuencoded file | |
| 7 | 1, 3 | Search | Fully supported |
| 8 | 1, 3 | Telnet session | No support planned |
| 9 | 1, 3 | Binary file | Fully supported |
| + | 1 | Mirrored selector | Fully supported |
| : | 2 | Image | Fully supported |
| ; | 2, 3 | Video file | |
| < | 2 | Audio file | Supported — files are offered for download |
| I | 1, 3 | Image | Fully supported |
| M | 3 | MIME-encoded message | |
| P | 3 | PDF file | Fully supported |
| T | 1 | Telnet session | No support planned |
| d | PDF file | Fully supported | |
| g | 1, 3 | GIF image | Fully supported |
| h | 3 | HTML | Supported — scripts are removed |
| i | 3 | Informational message | Fully supported |
| p | PNG image | Fully supported | |
| s | 3 | Audio file | Supported — files are offered for download |
The following references were used in compiling the list of Gopher content types:
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