Difference between Gopher and HTTP Protocol

1. Gopher Vs HTTP
Internet Technology
(B.Sc. CSIT TU)
Sandip Basnet

2. SN Gopher HTTP
1 Document formatting is in menu style Document formatting is in HTML
2 Minimalistic Semantics Rich and well developed semantics
3 Easy Search and Indexing Searching and Indexing are complex
4 Request are less resource intensive Request are more resource intensive
5 Barely Commercelized Highly Commercelized

3. SN Gopher HTTP
6 Largely Private Largely Public
7 Limited use only technica folks Widely Used
8 Can be accessed through gopher
client
Can be accessed through web client, web
browsers.
9 Less mature More mature
10 For example: gopher://sdf.org For example: https://www.netflix.com/

4. References
1) http://boston.conman.org/2019/01/12.2
2) https://mmn.lgbt/gopher/
3) http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/gopher.1.html
4) https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm