[WEB4LIB:14719] Re: gopher links in IE

[Thomas Dowling]

Is your computer center assuring you that Netscape is bug-free in all
respects?  Or are they really saying, "Please require us to support and
work around only one set of bugs"?

For what it's worth, MSIE 5.0b1 supports non-standard gopher ports, e.g.
gopher://gopher.vt.edu:10010/10/33


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of David Magier
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 1998 7:05 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB:14719] Re: gopher links in IE
>
>
> It has been reported before that IE simply doesn't know how to connect
> to gopher url's that include non-standard port numbers. Since
> "gopher://gopherserver:portnumber" is a valid url type in html
> standards, this counts as a bona fide bug in IE. At Columbia
> University, we have numerous web pages that contain links to selected
> gopher-based resources, so our computing center's advice to users is
> "Don't use buggy software: Stick to Netscape".
>
> David Magier
> Director of Area Studies
> Columbia University Libraries
>