[gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+
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> A menu would look similar to this,
>
> "1This points to a gopher
> menu%09/selector%09host%09port%09size%09mimetype".
> Where %09 is a hex-encoded tab.
I would also add encoding for text files and directory listings. Current
servers and clients have so much bugs with Cyrillic and 8-bit chars in
general.
> 2) I think new itemtypes should be reserved for file and text uploads.
> The type of upload allowed could be defined in a new tabspace, 0 for
> textfiles, 4 for binhex, 5 for DOS binary, you get the idea. I'm
> envisioning things like ftp gateways and bulletin board systems.
New item types are a compatibility problem, maybe existing types could
be extended instead (e.g. in a way similar to described in my previous
post about GN)?
If it's really needed:
In fact gopher bboards and guestbooks are pretty well made with just
sending email and parsing it on server with procmail or other script.
See example of a bboard-like thing
gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/1/users/yargo/glog
I have also set up a gopher guestbook here:
gopher://www.polarhome.com:27070/0/guestbook
> These things may already be possible with gopher+, but to loosely quote
> the RFC1436, intelligence should be held by the server, and should not be
> required of the client. Things like +VIEWS usually require intelligence
> on the part of the USER, who may or may not know whether he wants to
> download a file in plaintext or postscript format. Essentially, I would
> like to streamline the important features of gopher+ to a single network
> connection and keep the syntax respectful of the original gopher protocol.
>
> --
> Jeff
>
>
--
Yours, etc.
Roman A. Pavlov
gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/1/users/rp
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Jeff, 2006/01/01
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Benn Newman, 2006/01/01
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, John Goerzen, 2006/01/01
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Jeff, 2006/01/02
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Benn Newman, 2006/01/02
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, John Goerzen, 2006/01/03
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Benn Newman, 2006/01/04
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+,
R.A.Pavlov <=
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Benn Newman, 2006/01/03
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Jeff, 2006/01/03
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Cameron Kaiser, 2006/01/03
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Benn Newman, 2006/01/03
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Jeff, 2006/01/03
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, John Goerzen, 2006/01/03
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Jeff, 2006/01/03
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, Cameron Kaiser, 2006/01/04
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, R.A.Pavlov, 2006/01/04
- [gopher] Re: PyGopherd and Gopher+, John Goerzen, 2006/01/03
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