this is a nice idea, but idk why, in macos if i do `nc -l 127.0.0.1 gopher` and then try to open url "http://127.0.0.1:gopher/" - safari does not open it, no requests visible in the `nc` output.
also `curl -v http://127.0.0.1:gopher/` gives error message
* URL rejected: Port number was not a decimal number between 0 and 65535
* Closing connection
curl: (3) URL rejected: Port number was not a decimal number between 0 and 65535
so the ports are named, it is nice, but in practice it does not make life easier.As bandie pointed out, you‘re explicitly making a http request. Duh.
nc is for generic connections and handles it well.
> http://...:gopher
is it http or gopher? :)