Re: [gopher] Support for MIME type
On May 17, 2012, at 16:24 , Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>> I read the RFC of gopher 1.0 protocol and I can say that MIME is already
>> possible.
>>
>> Read that :
>> 1) MIME file is '0' type item
>> 2) all clients are compatible they can get '0' type files
>
> Still, though, I'm thinking a separate MIME type would be better since all
> current clients just dump out type 0 without further interpretation. 'M'
> has been suggested.
The "M" came from an very old document about gopher that I once read. I can't figure out what it was, and I don't think I have that doc anywhere. But it was not my idea....
Gophernicus already uses M for Mime, not that it really matters since clients cannot parse it.
- Kim
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