[gopher] Draft RFC

Alistair alistair at alistairsserver.no-ip.org
Thu Jun 21 18:06:29 UTC 2012


On 21/06/2012 18:36, Nick Matavka wrote:
> Except URL: strings are "de facto" gopher.
>
> As for HTML, nobody says Gopher clients need to support HTML.
> However, if a client does not support URL: and ALSO lacks support for
> HTML, I'm not sure how to "fake" support for URL:.  With HTML support,
> you can easily "fake" it, but without... well, I don't know.
>

Being able to render HTML and understanding http are two different 
things though... If a gopher server serves up a url string with http as 
the protocol that's just a signal for a gopher client to ignore it as it 
can't follow the link :)



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