[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[zack mayson]

On 8 May 2012 14:48, Alistair <alistair at alistairsserver.no-ip.org> wrote:

> I just make binary things be b... you can determine what the file is by
> automagical means anyway (or context in the case of completely headerless
> blobs). If a client doesn't know what to do with something it just
> downloads it, then the OS works out what to do with said automagical type
> detection.


Gopher is generally designed to be a low overhead protocol; plus, it would
introduce incompatibilities in clients running on old computers (i.e.
Zilogs, Sinclairs) and specifying what kind of data/files/content X is
neans a lot less work for client Y.
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