[gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions

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Backslashes are a native feature of all DOS and Windows based Gopher 
Servers. Essentially, these servers just make the directory structure of a hard 
drive visible as Gopher Selectors (kind of like you would do with directories 
on a Novell Server).  
 
This is why these Servers are so incredibly easy to get up and running.  Just 
create a directory to be the Gopher Root, then add / delete / change 
sub-directories and files to your hearts content (even the Gopher Links are 
easy to create, as they are nothing more than a few lines of text typed 
into specially named text files).  
--- On Sun, 8/3/08, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions
To: gopher@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sunday, August 3, 2008, 8:24 PM

Mate Nagy <k-zed@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hulloh,
>> A possible workaround: get the parent menu (using the same method I
>> mentioned before - I don't remember anything stating the selectors
are
>> supposed to be built with a slash between each directory name, I need
to
>> read the rfc again (even if gopher is supposed to be hierarchical,
what
>> prevents some server from using dots instead of slashes for directory
>> separators?)), check the mime-type (for the mime-in-the-menu
approach),
>> or check if the entry has gopher+ data (then retrieve such data).
>
>  Exactly - you can't rely on '/' being the separator, or that
the last
> section cut off yields the valid parent dir, or even that there are
> directories.

And here goes an example against the method I suggested.

An url pointing at a jumpjet resource:

gopher://VE131.jumpjet.info/99%5cCEM%5cDisaster%3dAir%5cAre_You_Ready-Hurricane.pdf
                              ^^^   ^^^              ^^^

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