Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC
On Thu, 10 May 2012 08:04:36 -0400
Wolfgang Faust <wolfgangmcq@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:46 PM, zack mayson
> <zmayson46@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
> > The gopher protocol could do with a few minor changes (better CGI
> > support and a way to add 'general' text boxes for user input
> > (comments for phlogs, quick user feedback, etc) mostly).
> >
> I don't use CGI myself, but I thought that it was implemented
> server-side and had nothing to do with the protocol or the clients.
> The 'general' text boxes is a good feature, but was already
> implemented in Gopher+ and doesn't reflect the spirit of the original
> Gopher protocol.
>
The issue with CGI is that a complex user-supplied query is often
needed to generate appropriate response.
Gopher+ has this in +ASK definition. See also HTML forms that generate
HTTP GET/POST requests.
I'm seriously considering hijacking the CSO Phonebook entry for that
matter, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea. Some very simple things
could obviously be done with it, but posting whole blog posts or
the like is much more problematic.
--
driedfruit
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