[gopher] Re: Views

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 01:00  PM, Ralph Furmaniak wrote:

> I included a list of features in a previous email, and I can write up 
> some detailed info.

Ah, was it a mail to this list?

>> So you're saying that your buck branch handles UMN .Links/.cap files?
>
> I included the funtionality relatively recently (even has the same 
> command-line options) based on the man pages, but I think the man page 
> was not to clear on a few points.  I have not tested this out yet.

Not only that, but it doesn't document all of the options even.  The 
best bet is the source code -- see gopherd/gopherd.c and 
object/GSgopherobj.c for starters.

> Okay, on my server I have a directory pyramid.dir and in it I have:
> pyramid.tex
> pyramid.dvi
> pyramid.pdf
> Now when the server serves the parent directory, on seeing that the 
> directory has a .dir extension it acts accordingly.  For a gopher+ 
> request it will give an item `pyramid` with the views found in the 
> directory.  For

I like it!  How do you define which view is the default, though?  (In 
Gopher+ parlance, the "preferred" view)

>> Indeed.  Already thought of that but have no idea how to do it :-)
>
> Should be a bit of DHTML or javascript and layers or iframes.  I have 
> seen it before (I have a friend who does this sort of stuff) but others 
> can probably implement the HTML better.  It should not be much of a 
> problem writing the server-side code.

Yeah, the server side is easy -- I just don't know Javascript.