[gopher] gopher++ (gopher1) protocol

[Alex Nordlund]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Kacper Gutowski <mwgamera at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2010-01-11 14:48:55, Kim Holviala wrote:
>> Now that wasn't too hard? Definately easier than coding PDF support
>> into the client. Now all the server has to do is to stitch those two
>> images together (there might have been a convert option for that
>> too).
>
> Not as easy as coding PDF support into server, right?  No, really
> that's not a point.  Conversion may be possible for some certain formats
> but it's wrong to rely on it especially on the server side where end user
> has no control on what's going on and has no idea whether the result
> is similar to the original or not.
>

CGI: was it or was it not written for exactly these purposes?
Demanding conversion from the server is an incredibly silly thing to
do in the standard.

Or are you planning on providing an open library for all textual
formats available?

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//Alex