[gopher] Ending type 0 transmissions with a dot or not?

[Brian Koontz]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:26:11AM +0300, Kim Holviala wrote:
> It seems that pygopherd doesn't terminate with a dot but bucktooth does, 
> and so far I haven't found a client which would do both of the above. 
> Firefox shows all the dots in the world, Overbite ends with a dot but 
> doesn't follow the second rule and even UMN gopher shows me double-dots...

Gopher servers are inconsistent in this regard.  You can't depend upon
servers to terminate lines correctly.  When I wrote the WikkaWiki
gopher proxy, I quickly discovered that writing code to the RFC was
not going to work.  You'll have to deal with any number of line
terminators if you want intercompatibility.

  --Brian