[gopher] Re: UMN gopher client weird behavior

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > Jon Nelson (the guy behing pygopherd) has been asking me why UMN
> > gopher is sending weird things to his server.  I did some checking and
> > it looked to me that the TAB $ was a gopher+ism -- dunno why it would
> > try to send that as the first thing ever, before it knows it's
> > speaking to a gopher+ server.  Is this a bug?  Does anyone else do it?
> 
> David and I have discussed that behaviour before and we consider it a bug,
> too. Bucktooth deals with it by simply sending a stock gopher+ response that
> forces UMN-gopher to use regular gopher requests.

What specific response is it that you send in this instance?

> 
> What's pygopherd?
> 
> > Next, he said he had observed it sending *spaces* and not a tab, or
> > even a tab with no $.  Is this a bug?  It seems to me that it is.
> 
> Haven't seen this yet.
> 
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