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Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC





On 8 May 2012 14:48, Alistair <alistair@alistairsserver.no-ip.org> wrote:
I just make binary things be b... you can determine what the file is by automagical means anyway (or context in the case of completely headerless blobs). If a client doesn't know what to do with something it just downloads it, then the OS works out what to do with said automagical type detection.

Gopher is generally designed to be a low overhead protocol; plus, it would introduce incompatibilities in clients running on old computers (i.e. Zilogs, Sinclairs) and specifying what kind of data/files/content X is neans a lot less work for client Y. 
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