The Gopher ActiveX control enables the application to search a
Gopher server for a specific document or resource and return that
information to the client. The Gopher protocol pre-dates the
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that is used with the World Wide
Web and is similar in a number of ways. Resources returned by the
Gopher server may be text files, as well as binary executables,
image files and encoded file archives.
This ActiveX control is supported on Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. If you
are using Windows 2000, it is required that you have Service Pack
(SP4) installed. If you are using Windows XP, it is required that
you have at least Service Pack 2 (SP2) installed and it is
recommended that you install Internet Explorer 7.0. It is also
recommended that all critical updates to the Windows operating
system be installed.
The SocketTools Visual Edition components are compatible with
any development tool that fully supports COM (Component Object
Model) and the ActiveX control specification. This includes Visual
Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio 2005 and Visual
Studio 2008. If you are using Visual Basic 6.0 or Visual C++ 6.0,
it is required that you have Service Pack 6 (SP6) installed. If you
are using Visual Studio .NET 2003 or Visual Studio 2005, it is
recommended that you install Service Pack 1 (SP1). In all cases, it
is recommended that you have the current updates for your
development tools installed.