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Re: [gopher] bandwidth overhead for gopher


assuming a set selector of 10 characters long, how many bytes would that be........... and could you compare that to the closest example of http and www with a 10 character long site adress? and how many bytes would the http version run into?
From: prologic@shortcircuit.net.au
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 14:46:32 +1000
To: gopher-project@lists.alioth.debian.org
Subject: Re: [gopher] bandwidth overhead for gopher

Confirmed.

A Gopher Request is basically:

CONNECT:
WRITE: <selector>\r\n
READ: <data>
CLOSE:

cheers
James


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 2:19 PM, barana . <barana24@hotmail.com> wrote:
gday.
     Could someone please correct me.....
 I am under the impression that gopher has a far smaller data use overhead for its transmission duties.. Could someone please confirm or deny?

Thanks gents. -Barana.
 

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