[gopher] Re: Yet another gopher protocol question ...

[Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@aol.com>]

According to RFC1436, if the source text file, and it finds a period on
a line by itself, it sends it as .. instead of just . so it doesn't
accidentally end the connection. I can't figure out though if that's the
proper behavior of the client when dealing with uuencoded files.
Michael

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 16:19 -0700, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by double periods, but I've historically
> handled it as text. The 0.2.5 version of Bucktooth which is coming out
> will do this raw, but mostly out of expediency. I don't think most
> clients
> care.