"The Gopher protocol is a communications protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents in Internet Protocol networks. The design of the Gopher protocol and user interface is menu-driven."
Gopher is, for most builds of Bombadillo, the default protocol that is used if no url scheme is provided and was the original protocol Bombadillo was built to support.
Note that the gophertype is not required for a server to return content, but is required for a client (like Bombadillo) to interpret it properly. The port is optional; Bombadillo will use port 70 if no other port is supplies.
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