[gopher] Re: newbie server administrator question

["Jason J. Gullickson" <mr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, here's a weird twist,

I tested this using lynx instead of gopher, and I can access the file just
fine (?).

When I try to get to it using gopher, or Internet Explorer, it fails.

Gopher does nothing but blink the screen.

IE tries to access this URL:

gopher://unix1.inacom-msn.com%20/00/README%09%09%2B

the %20 in the URL is an encoded space, and if I remove it, IE reads the
file just fine.

Why would gopher put a space between the host and the first slash?

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Goerzen" <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <mr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: [gopher] Re: newbie server administrator question


> "Jason J. Gullickson" <mr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Here is the entire text I received from hitting "=" when the link was
> > selected (the file is the readme from the gopher tar file):
>
> OK, that looks correct, assuming that your hostname actually is
> unix1.inacom-msn.com.
>
> What exact error message do you get when you try to follow that link?
> Do you also get it if you use something like lynx?  (lynx
> gopher://localhost/ or lynx gopher://localhost/0/README)
>
> -- John
>
> --
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>    GPG: 0x8A1D9A1F
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