[gopher] Re: Gopher+ Protocol Question

[Ralph Furmaniak <sugaku@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scratch that, this is what a gopher+ guide said, but the official protocol
says otherwise.  So if after the selector there is a tab and something, if
it starts with one of +,!,$ it is gopher+, otherwise it is a search
string.  Do clients ever send an empty search string, then the gopher+
stuff?

Ralph Furmaniak wrote:

> >From what I read, Gopher+ clients should send after the selector
> "F[search string]F[gopher+ stuff]" so that you can tell these two
> apart.  Is this always the case, ie is it fine to just split the string
> between tabs and use them, or should I check to make sure that [search
> string] is not actually the gopher+ string?