Re: [gopher] Gophernicus, caps and revival of gopher++
> Inspired by brother Jay of quix.us fame I started coding gophery stuff
> again...
>
> First thing I did this morning was adding native support for Cameron's
> caps.txt (see gopher://gophernicus.org/0/caps.txt for a live example).
> The format of my caps.txt is pretty identical to that from Cameron,
> apart from the comments which I removed (keeps the code cleaner). I did
> add one key to it which I think it fairly important (forget the Output*
> headers, those were just for testing):
>
> ServerProtocol=RFC1436
>
> This tells the client which protocol the server confirms to. I guess
> pygopherd could change that to "gopher+":
>
> ServerProtocol=gopher+
>
> Or maybe like this:
>
> ServerProtocol=RFC1436, gopher+
>
> Or how about
>
> ServerProtocol=RFC1436
> ServerProtocol=gopher+
I'd rather have non-duplicated keys, so I'd prefer
ServerProtocol=RFC1436,gopher+
or some such. But I agree, this is an optimal use for caps:
> This got me thinking about my failed attempt at extending the protocol
> to make it possible for the client to include metadata in the request. I
> had to scrap the extensions because some servers just didn't like the
> extra stuff... So, with caps.txt the client could first query the server
> about the protocol, and if caps says it's ok to have extra metadata then
> it could send 'em.
However, as an optimization I think we can assume that all servers accept
RFC1436, so how about
ServerExtensions=gopher+
Of course, the idea is that caps should be a wide-open interface and people
can use whatever keys they think are meaningful. At some point, however, like
MIME types we should publish a canonical list of widely recognized caps keys.
I should also publish a reference implementation of how to interpret a caps
file for interested client authors, though I think the file format is pretty
self-explanatory.
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