Gopher Protocol

GopherRequest

GopherRequest is a class for holding the selector.

const { GopherRequest } = require('gopher-protocol');

const gopherRequest = new GopherRequest(selector);

GopherLink

GopherLink is used for constructing the Gopher menu items New menu items are created by doing:

const { GopherLink } = require('gopher-protocol');

const link = new GopherLink('0', 'Display Text', 'gopher.test', '/test', 70)

GopherSubMenu

gopherSubMenu has two functions:

• generate: creates a new submenu from GopherLinks
• parse: converts text to an array of GopherLinks

const { GopherLink, gopherSubMenu } = require('gopher-protocol');
const links = [
  new GopherLink('0', 'Display Text', 'gopher.test', '/test', 70)
];
const subMenu = gopherSubMenu.generate(links);

const linkString = '0Display Text\t/test\tgopher.test\t70\r\n'
const parsedMenu = gopherSubMenu.parse(linkString);

GopherTypes

Easy lookup of the accepted Gopher types

TEXT:        0
SUBMENU:     1
CCSO:        2
ERROR:       3
BINHEX:      4
DOS:         5
UUENCODED:   6
SEARCH:      7
TELNET:      8
BINARY:      9
MIRROR:      +
GIF:         g
IMAGE:       i
TELNET3270:  T
HTML:        h
INFORMATION: i
SOUND:       s

Example:

const { GopherTypes } = require('gopher-protocol');

const textType = GopherTypes.TEXT