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PyGopherd is a modern dynamic multi-protocol hierarchical information server
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with a pluggable modularized extension system, full flexible caching, virtual
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files and folders, and autodetection of file types -- all with support for
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standardized yet extensible per-document metadata.
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PyGopherd is designed to serve up files using the Gopher Internet protocol.
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With Gopher, you can mount a filesystem (viewing files and folders as if they
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were local), browse Gopherspace with a web browser, download files, and be
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interactive with searching.
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But this is only part of the story. The world of Gopher is more expansive than
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this. There are two major gopher protocols: Gopher0 (also known as RFC1436)
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and Gopher+. PyGopherd supports both.
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PyGopherd also fully natively supports HTTP, the protocol used on the Internet
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for most Web transactions. So, you can access a PyGopherd server using anything
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from a small, 20-line client in mobile phone to a massive 50-MB web browser.
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WWW: http://www.quux.org/devel/gopher/pygopherd/
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