[gopher] Gopher Archive

Wolfgang F. wolfgangmcq at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 16:46:23 UTC 2011


Oh! Did I not read the RFC correctly?

On 8/28/11, Mateusz Viste <mateusz at viste-family.net> wrote:
> You can't. Your URL is not a valid gopher URL. Should be:
>
> gopher://example.com/Sdirectory/file
>
> where  "S" is the gopher selector, that will tell you what type of ressource
> the user wants to retrieve (menu, text file, music, image, etc).
>
> Best regards,
> Mateusz Viste
>
>
>
> On Sunday 28 August 2011 18:23:36 Wolfgang F. wrote:
>> No, I mean a file retrieved from a Gopher server, not just a file in
>> the archive. I.E., someone requests
>> gopher://example.com/directory/file from the proxy. How do I figure
>> out if it's a
>> Gopher menu or just a random text file?
>>
>> On 8/27/11, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org> wrote:
>> > Hi Wolfgang,
>> >
>> > The only way that files made it into the archive I spidered is if they
>> > were in a menu somewhere.  As far as figuring what menu they were in --
>> > that could take some nontrivial effort with grep, I'd imagine.
>> >
>> > -- John
>> >
>> > On 08/27/2011 06:51 PM, Wolfgang F. wrote:
>> >> I am working on making a web-browsable Gophernet archive&  proxy,
>> >> which should be available in a beta version in a few months
>> >> (hopefully). In the meantime, I'm having a little bit of difficulty:
>> >> Is there any way to figure out if a file is a menu, other than
>> >> checking other menus to find out?
> --
> You'll find my public OpenPGP key at
> http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/pub_key
>


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