On 08/05/2012 17:01, zack mayson wrote:
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.
Trouble is there's a gazillion kinds of file and soon you end up with a huge mess like mimetypes.
As ling as a client or whatever knows what it /can/ handle it can just ignore anything it doesn't recognise.
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