[gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > gopher://gopher.site.invalid/9(image/tiff)/pictures/venusdekilometro.tif
> > 
> > Does this mean that we have to look up the mime-type for each file? What if
> > you don't know it? Also, wouldn't this make it harder to give links to other
> > people? I'm not really at peace with these things - mime-types and all that
> > just aren't my cup of tea.
> 
> It would make them longer, yes. However, the idea here is only to use the
> MIME type for ambiguous or unspecified types. A client that is type-aware only
> uses the MIME type if it's provided, and falls back on the itemtype otherwise.
> A client that doesn't know about MIME types just sees the 9.

I should also add that specifying the MIME type in this scheme would be
totally optional. You could have a regular menu and for the one troublesome
file in there that does not neatly fit into an existing item type, *then*
you could add a MIME type. And like I say above, it won't break any clients.
Only the server has to know/deal with it.

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