Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC
On May 8, 2012, at 3:23 PM, nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote:
> 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.
> `---
For everyone's reference, here's the gopher+ proposal:
http://wt.gopherite.org/gopherplus.html
Its views function is essentially a way to implement mime-type for what its worth.
>
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