About Gopher Client
"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...
"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
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Gopher Client since it was posted on our website on 2021-12-23 09:45:55.
The latest version is 2018.8 and it was updated on 2026-06-12 19:17:47. See below the changes in each version.
Gopher Client version 2018.8
Updated At: 2026-06-12
Changes: Version History This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
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
Gopher Client version 2018.8
Updated At: 2018-08-22
Changes: This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
This is a small update that improves the display of menus that contain non-standard document types.
Gopher Client version 2018.8
Updated At: 2018-08-22
Changes: Aug 22, 2018 Version 2018.8
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
This is a small update that improves the display of menus that contain non-standard document types.
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