[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[Damien Carol]

It's my proposal : to have generic types :

  *Old one*

*My Proposal*

*Name*

*Description*

1

1

MENU

Menu

0

0

TEXT

Small text file, render directly in browser in easy way

3

3

ERROR

Tell client that result is KO

7

7

INDEX / PROGRAMS

You now it

9

9

BINARY

Binary, generic one









5

5

ARCHIVE

Binary but check it as ARCHIVE (zip, rar, etc…)

g, P, I

I

Image File

Binary but check it as IMAGE (JPG, GIF, BMP, etc…)

;

V

Video File

Binary but check it as VIDEO (AVI, MKV, etc….)

s

A

Audio File

Binary but check it as AUDIO (WAV, mp3, etc…)

d

D

Document Text File

Binary but check it as TEXT (Plain, Word, ODF, etc…)









h

E

EXTERNAL URL

Check the selector for "URL:"


2012/5/8 Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva at ist.utl.pt>

> On 2012-05-08, Alistair wrote:
>
> > On 08/05/2012 17:01, zack mayson wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >
> > Trouble is there's a gazillion kinds of file and soon you end up with
> > a huge mess like mimetypes.
>
> The good thing about mimetypes is that they're easier to expand without
> breaking compatibility (although, given enough time, one can always
> break anything).
>
> > As ling as a client or whatever knows what it /can/ handle it can just
> > ignore anything it doesn't recognise.
>
> The key is to grow a set of itemtypes such that clients can readily
> ignore everything else and just focus on what they can handle.
>
>
> --
> Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
> gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
> http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gopher-Project mailing list
> Gopher-Project at lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project
>



-- 
Damien CAROL
gopher://dams.zapto.org/1/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/gopher-project/attachments/20120508/d4d634d6/attachment-0001.html>