[gopher] Re: Pygopherd nearing gopherd replacement

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> When I tried to drop the leading type character in the gopher selectors
> I discovered the following problem.  The server receives the request
> 
>          /fooFsomedata
> 
> with `F' being a tab character.  Now the question for the server is if
> `/foo' is of type 7 or not.  In the first case `somedata' is the query
> string in the second it's a gopher+ attribute.

bucktooth (original fork) kludges for this by checking if /foo is executable.
If it is, then it treats somedata as a query always.

This is further aided by the fact that I removed G+ from bucktooth :-)

I don't know how Ralph's branch handles this.

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