Re: [gopher] Selector types summary
> just a summary of the selectors I know:
Don't you mean item types? </pedantic>
> Selectors seen in the wild:
> h - hypertext link
or more accurately "HTML"
> i - informational item (text)
>
> Some questions regarding them:
>
> What is this CSO protocol? I can't find any specification of it.
> Can someone point me at a still running server?
CSO is the same as the old ph. OverbiteFF supports it; this gopher URL
talks to a working server at uic.edu:105, queries it for "sachs" and
displays both (current) matches:
gopher://ns.uic.edu:105/2query%20sachs%20return%20all
If you do
gopher://ns.uic.edu:105/2
then you will get a requester box. Of course, the itemtype rewriting
code in 2.1.1554 does this wrong and offers to rewrite it to item type 1;
I will fix this. Just click cancel and the requester will appear.
> 4, 5, 6 and 9 seem to be redundant for binary files? The only
> difference is, that some old clients may be interested in such
> metadata.
Yes. It does point to different handlers for older clients, but pretty
much everything now just treats them as binary lumps.
> g and I are redundant for image files?
I'd argue this one. While I is supposed to be "generic image," that requires
the client to content-sniff. Mozilla's docshell did do this, but OverbiteFF
for technical reasons cannot, so it looks at the extension of the file. This
is usually good enough but I don't like it. See 'p' below.
> How is the + type supposed to work? The balancing server is send-
> ing out a menu with all the redundant servers first and then the
> client decides where to connect?
I believe so, but I've never made or actually used such an implementation.
> 8 and T are redundant for interactive sessions? I would propose
> a selector type for SSH: 's'.
s is used intermittently for "generic sound." Other de-facto item types I
have encountered include p (PNG), d (PDF), x (XML) and c (CSS). OverbiteFF
currently supports all of these.
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