[gopher] filename extensions

[David Griffith]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

>> I'm mirroring the Interactive Fiction Archive at gopher.feedle.net and
>> have a problem for which I cannot find an answer.  There are a lot of
>> files in the archive and so I have a single gophermap file listing the
>> root of the archive.  Below that there are no gophermap files.  Some files
>> have their extensions removed, particularly .txt, .zip, and .tar.gz.  How
>> can I make sure that extensions aren't truncated?  Is the only solution to
>> write a script to digest the Master-Index.xml file to emit gophermap files
>> for each and every subdirectory?
>
> What's your server software? I don't know of any that truncates the extension
> like that.

I'm using pygopherd.  Digging around I found the answer in 
/etc/pygopherd.conf.  Pretty dumb of me not to notice it.

Now I have a new problem: gripes seem to go nowhere.  I don't see any 
trace of them in the email logs of the sending or receiving servers.

-- 
David Griffith
dave at 661.org