Gaufre

Gopher Browser for the Web Browser

gaufre [noun goh-fer]

1. French word for waffle, a sweet dessert from 🇧🇪 Belgium.
2. Homophone of Gopher, an early Internet protocol.

Demo

https://gopher.commons.host

Video

Presented by Sebastiaan Deckers at WFHConf on 2020-03-26.

CLI

Runs a local webserver that serves Gaufre.

gaufre [port]

port defaults to 3000

$ npx gaufre
Listening on http://localhost:3000

GoH Proxy

Gaufre defaults to using the public Gopher over HTTP (GoH) proxy service offered by the Commons Host open source CDN project.

To use your own local GoH proxy, install Node.js and run:

$ npx goh
Listening on http://localhost:7080

Enter this url in the Gaufre settings menu. See the goh project for CLI options and documentation.

Note: The Safari browser does not allow cross-origin access from Internet web sites to localhost.