Re: [gopher] Support for MIME type
Greetings.
On Thu, 17 May 2012 20:12:17 +0200 Kim Holviala <kim@holviala.com> wrote:
> On May 17, 2012, at 20:20 , Christoph Lohmann wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:20:10 +0200 Damien Carol <damien.carol@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I saw mp4 video and all sort of files under type '0' ...
> >>
> >> Try FOSDEM part of "r-36.net" to see typical wrong use of type '0' item.
> >>
> >> => gopher://gopher.r-36.net:70/1/FOSDEM08
> >
> > Movie files are not defined in the original gopher RFC, so it is no
> > wrong usage. Every unknown ending is defined by geomyidae to be a binary
> > stream.
>
> Yup, except type 0 is US-ASCII text (or Latin-1, or UTF-8 - no one really knows). All unknown files should be type 9 binaries.
That's fixed in the god-like gopher server geomyidae now.
Sincerely,
Christoph Lohmann
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