Experts Warn Of IE Gopher Hole
News The new exploit involves Gopher, a protocol for fetching data on remote servers popular before the explosive growth of the Internet. Gopher has largely disappeared from use, for the most part replaced by the HTTP protocol accessed using Web browsers.
[June 6, 2002, 7:32]
Comic Gopher
Downloads Comic Gopher makes reading your favorite comics a breeze. Comic Gopher is trained to fetch hundreds of comics. He is a friendly little desktop application that goes out and fetches your favorite comics everyday and then shows them all to you on one...
[April 25, 2008, 23:31]
Microsoft's Gopher Hole Deepens
News The problem results from an "unchecked buffer in the code which handles information returned from a Gopher server," Microsoft explained in the security bulletin. As previously reported, the exploit uses Gopher, an all-but-obsolete Internet protocol...
[June 13, 2002, 9:08]
The Ups And Downs Of Life With Linus
Talkback Does Linus have a gopher to handle the mundane stuff? The gopher could do the builds and document them with minimum impact on Linus. Sounds like an immature development/QA process. I'd like to know the flow of product from Linus through release...
[March 2, 2005, 19:14]
Old Code In Windows Is Security Threat
News A feature that allowed Internet Explorer to communicate with servers running Gopher, a pre-Web protocol for hyperlinking information, has a vulnerability that could leave PC users open to attack, a Finnish researcher said last week.
[June 10, 2002, 9:34]
Create A Hyperlink
White Papers Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.for the user when he or she types the address of an existing Web page, such as www.microsoft.com, if the automatic formatting of hyperlinks has not been turned off.
[May 6, 2008, 0:00]
MOAC - A Report On Integrating Museum And Archive Access In The Online Archive Of California
White Papers Libraries had already had telnet and gopher access to Online Public Access Catalogs (OPACs) for years by this point. 1995 was a watershed year for museums. This was the year when museums began to produce websites in critical numbers, and for most...
[April 14, 2005, 0:00]
Working With Frames Pages
White Papers Hyperlinks can also go to newsgroups and to Gopher, Telnet, and FTP sites.opens in, and the default frame for hyperlinks in a frames page. One can specify which page first appears in a Web frame (frames: The named subwindow of a frames page.
[May 6, 2008, 0:00]
Opera: Firefox User Figures 'inflated'
Talkback Well, I have seen all browsers, like news, BBS, Gopher, Netscape, IE, Avant, Squeak, Mozilla (I still remember Go! Zilla), Firefox and Opera. I even used And Opera is the best. Well, it has the last engine, so it is not surprising, but its...
[August 16, 2005, 8:35]
Microsoft Warns Of Office, IE Security Risks
News The new bugs are buffer overruns for Gopher and for Active X controls, a problem in HTML directives displaying XML data, a bug in file downloads, a cross-domain verification vulnerability, and a variant of cross-site scripting.
[August 23, 2002, 7:43]
Microsoft Is Forced To Issue SSL Patch For IE
News Buffer Overrun in Gopher Protocol Handler (CAN-2002-0646) (Note: Details on this candidate hadn't been posted on the CVE list at the time of this writing.Buffer Overrun in Legacy Text Formatting ActiveX Control (CAN-2002-0647)XML File Reading via...
[September 9, 2002, 16:59]
New Security Flaw In Outlook, IE
News In June, Microsoft released a patch for an IE flaw that allowed attackers to run code on a victim's computer by exploiting links to an old pre-Web protocol known as Gopher. A Danish security researcher warned users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer...
[July 11, 2002, 7:51]
Security Flaw In Key Microsoft Services
News Weeks earlier, Microsoft warned of a Gopher security hole in Internet Explorer that also could allow hackers to take control of computers or servers. The Redmond, Washington-based software giant strongly urged customers using the File Transfer...
[August 21, 2002, 7:38]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback No HTTP, just TELNET, GOPHER, FTP and such. Smithy, Microsoft started taking huge chunks out of the Netscape market share when they started to make "or else" deals with various companies. In short, at that time most certainly, they took their...
[June 28, 2005, 23:25]
