[gopher] How to handle lines beginning by a dot?

[Mateusz Viste <mateusz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi everybody!

The Gopher RFC (1436) contains the following note:

"Lines beginning with periods must be prepended with an extra period to ensure 
that the transmission is not terminated early. The client should strip extra 
periods at the beginning of the line."

I do not understand what does it exactly mean...
If I serve a text file which has a line like ".Blah!", how should I process it? 
I understand that the problem could occur if the client is silly enough to 
close the connection when it finds a dot character after a CR/LF...

Another question - How should I handle text files which contain a line with 
only a dot (".")?

Any suggestions/hints will be appreciated ;-)

Best regards,
Mateusz Viste
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