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

Kim Holviala kim at holviala.com
Thu Apr 1 13:27:50 UTC 2010


On 2010-04-01 15:50, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> My personal feeling is screw the dot and close the connection, and I'll
> probably change Bucktooth to do that at some unspecified time.

That's what I decided to do by default too as I found the whole dot 
thingy stupid and so inconsistent it wasn't even funny. Even UMN's own 
client doesn't do what their own spec says...

I think on the client side I'll skip the last lone dot if it's there but 
that's about it.


- Kim




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