[gopher] Re: Views

[Ralph Furmaniak <sugaku@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> It doesn't have to.  The client just gets what it wants.  The server 
> simply tells it what the option is and indicates a single preferred 
> option (the first listed one).  The client can either heed or ignore 
> that preference.


Is there any point to this, or is it just so that it knows what to send to 
gopher0 clients?

I had a file in text/plain and image/gif format.  The server put image/gif as 
preferred.  The umn client just picked text/plain as preferred.