Troubleshooting Overbite and sending in your comments
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Overbite is designed to be as seamless an experience as possible, but the
maintainers of the Overbite Project recognize that there will be bugs and
problems.

If this document does not answer your question, or you believe you have
found a bug or security flaw in Overbite, or even if you just have a
suggestion, please send information to

        gopher@floodgap.com

Please send log or image attachments only after we have reviewed your
initial report and specifically request them. Thank you!

- Notes on proxy support

If you are behind a firewall or on a network that uses a proxy to reach the
outside world, Overbite will try to use whatever proxy settings are enabled
in your browser. SOCKS is preferred, but Overbite may be able to make use of
certain HTTP proxies. The only sure way to know is to try it and see. If you
are unable to get Overbite working with your particular network setup, please
send details to gopher@floodgap.com to consider support in a future version.

If the proxy does not natively work with your browser normally, however, it
will certainly not work with Overbite either.

If you use an actual Gopher proxy to access Gopherspace, such as Squid when
enabled for Gopher proxy support, you cannot use Overbite with such a proxy.
These proxies do the translation step themselves, and Overbite is not even
involved in this configuration.

- Sites don't work the way they used to

  - related: Overbite 'can't see' a gopher host that regular Firefox can
  - related: Gopher-hosted HTML documents have broken images and links

If a site behaved in a particular way when accessed with Mozilla's internal
gopher support, but does not now, it may fall under some of the changes that
Overbite enforces. The two situations above are probably the most common
symptoms of these changes. Please refer to the section on Differences between
Mozilla Gopher support and Overbite.

- Foreign encodings are not automatically detected

Many international Gopher sites were created before the wide use of Unicode
and may use an encoding that is not correctly detected, particularly for
Asian languages. In Firefox, go to View, Character Encoding, and try selecting
a new one (for example, for Chinese, Big5 was commonly used; for Japanese,
try ShiftJIS).

- Saved gopher menu files don't reload correctly (or look weird)

You must save gopher menus as HTML Complete to get the styling and image
information. Note that a gopher menu from disk thus is not reskinned by
Overbite, as it is now simply an HTML document.




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