[gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions

[nunojsilva@xxxxxxxxxx (Nuno J. Silva)]

Jason Nemrow <jnemrow@xxxxxxx> writes:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Mate Nagy" <k-zed@xxxxxxxxxx>

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>>  I would support a variation where we'd write off gopher+ as the
>> complete failure it is, and just stick mime fields at the end of the
>> menu records.
>
> Yes, my first thought is that just adding mime to the end of the menu entit=
> y would do the job simply and easily and, dare I say, gopherly.  What do ot=
> her think of Mate's idea?

What about two tabs (no plus) to say 'no gopher+ data'? That way we
could still allow gopher+ to be used, and the mime data would be after
the gopher+ field.

A menu item would be something like:
name<tab> selector<tab> server<tab> port[<tab> gopher+[<tab> mime]]

([ .. ] = .. is optional)


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