GOPHER PROTOCOL / PORT 70
Follow the protocol,
line by line.
DIG opens Gopher without hiding the wire format. Browse a menu, inspect every field and save the exact response with a SHA-256 digest.
01 / INTERACTIVE TRACE
A menu you can
take apart.
Run DIG locally for real TCP requests with strict time and byte limits. This public page falls back to a committed fixture, so it never pretends a recording is live.
Session history
- No navigation yet.
Bookmarks
- No saved addresses.
Detecting the available transport.
02 / THE FORMAT
One line.
Five decisions.
What the item contains.
What a person sees.
What the client requests.
Where the request goes.
Where the socket opens.
03 / REBUILT, NOT RESKINNED
The interface finally meets the protocol.
The first prototype stopped at the browser shell. DIG now has one parser shared by a bounded TCP client, a local gateway, the command line and this inspector.
Ejupi Labs and DIG contributors built both the prototype and the current implementation.