You found the file whose selector is "/%25". If you got here via a selector of "/%2525", then your Gopher client is borken (Lagrange is one such client). If your client properly handles percent-encoding, you can retrieve this file at: gopher://asciz.com/0/%2525 If your client does not properly handle percent-encoding, well, sorry, you can't get to this file via a gopher URL. See gopher://asciz.com/0/client-tests for more information about percent-encoding.