<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Introduction</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.net-gopher.html">Gopher</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="net-gopher.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.net-gopher.html">Gopher</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="intro.net-gopher" class="preface"> <h1 class="title">Introduction</h1> <p class="simpara"> The gopher protocol, as defined by <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1436" class="link external">» RFC 1436</a>, is generally considered the ancestor of the modern HTTP protocol. However, gopher was also intended to provide references to non-gopher resources including telnet, wais, nntp, and even http. This extension adds gopher support to PHP's <a href="wrappers.html" class="link">URL Wrappers</a>, and provides a helper function <span class="function"><a href="function.gopher-parsedir.html" class="function">gopher_parsedir()</a></span> to make sense of gopher formatted directory listings. </p> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="book.net-gopher.html">Gopher</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="net-gopher.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="book.net-gopher.html">Gopher</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
