Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

2012/5/8 Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>

> > Exactly. There is only a need for a menu type, informational, interac___

> > tive (search), binary, uri (h), telnet, error and text. The rest could

> > be kept for compatibility, but for example to support the non___GIF item

> > type you have to implement heuristics anyway, which can be adopted for
> > every binary file.
>
> Maybe it's a good idea to have generic purpose-based item types, that
> is, a way to say it's supposed to be viewed as an image, as a movie, a
> document, a text file, etc.
>
> This would not be exactly as precise as a type that says "Compuserve GIF
> image" or "Portable Network Graphics", but at least tells the client
> "Hey, this is going to be an image, if you can, render it yourself or
> delegate it to your imageviewer".

We sort of have that with I (sort of), and ; and s, and (less widely
accepted) d.

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PROTOCOL ITSELF
Type	Description	What CLIENT MUST DO ?
0	Short text, client can render it directly at screen because it's small data	Keep the menu and render the text directly
1	Menu the most important	Request the menu and analyse it
		if it's a menu with '3' error node => show error message to the client
		if not, then render the menu in new window
7	Index / Programs	Same as menu BUT the client send selector + TAB + something

DATA NODES
Type	Description	What CLIENT MUST DO ?
5	Binary crap	Download and analyse it
all others	Binary crap	if it's a menu with '3' error node => show error message to the client
		If not the brower do what it want.
		For example some browsers render images or redirect to other programs


EXTERNAL
Type	Description	What CLIENT MUST DO ?
h	external URL	Do what to do with "URL:"


KEEP THIS FOR HISTORICAL REASON
Type	Description	What CLIENT MUST DO ?
2	CSO phone-book server	Manage this nodes like h
8	Telnet session	Manage this nodes like h
T	tn3270 session	Manage this nodes like h

Old one	My Proposal	Name	Description
1	1	MENU	Menu
0	0	TEXT	Small text file, render directly in browser in easy way
3	3	ERROR	Tell client that result is KO
7	7	INDEX / PROGRAMS	You now it
9	9	BINARY	Binary, generic one

5	5	ARCHIVE	Binary but check it as ARCHIVE (zip, rar, etc…)
g, P, I	I	Image File	Binary but check it as IMAGE (JPG, GIF, BMP, etc…)
;	V	Video File	Binary but check it as VIDEO (AVI, MKV, etc….)
s	A	Audio File	Binary but check it as AUDIO (WAV, mp3, etc…)
d	D	Document Text File	Binary but check it as TEXT (Plain, Word, ODF, etc…)

h	E	EXTERNAL URL	Check the selector for "URL:"