Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC
On 2012-05-08, Zack Mayson wrote:
> On 08/05/2012 21:09, Nuno J. Silva wrote
>> From what I remember, the gopher+ column was added to gopher menus
>> relying on older clients discarding anything else they didn't
>> understand at the end of menu entries.
>>
>> So maybe, if we want to add a mime-type column, we could do so
>> *after* the g+ column.
>
> I thought it was the other way round; the UMN gopher client is so old
> and rotten it would probably throw an error when it hit the
> theoretical 'm' column. And who knows how it would mess up Lynx (my
> favourite terminal-based gopher/web/ftp client).
>
The RFC says clients should ignore everything else. Now, I'd not be
surprised if some client *actually* chooses not to ignore these
additional fields.
Also, I don't recall whether gopher+ only used one field or if it
defined more fields.
,----[rfc1436, at the end of page 4]
|
| . If there are yet other tab delimited fields, the basic
| Gopher client should ignore them. A CR LF denotes the end of the
| item.
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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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