[gopher] Re: Gopher+ Protocol Question
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Yay, now there is also a dataflag to deal with!
What is the format of the datablock as sent by the client? The information
wasn't too clear about this. Is it just either "-1", "-2", or number of bytes
followed by CRLF followed by the data?
Ralph Furmaniak wrote:
> 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?
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