[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[Dennis Schulmeister]

On Tue, 08 May 2012 17:08:17 +0100
Alistair <alistair at alistairsserver.no-ip.org> wrote:

> Trouble is there's a gazillion kinds of file and soon you end up with a 
> huge mess like mimetypes.

Why do you think mime types are a mess? IMHO it's the only way to
reliably tell the file type without analyzing the file itself. With one
letter item types you won't get very far. Especially if you're
restricted to 7-bit ascii or even any 8-bit encoding.

I wonder what would happen if we added a m item type (as in mime-type)
which has an additional TAB mime-type added at the end of the line. How
many clients would break?

Dennis


Yours sincerely,
Dennis Schulmeister

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