[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[Trevor Burdick]

in terms of client, what about a type for streaming video? that might be 
useful. I think it would be an amazing step forward to stream video into a 
gopher client.

also, someone made me feel really old today. he didn't know what gopher was. 
or veronica. or jughead. le sigh.

--------------------------------------------------
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre at floodgap.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 9:16 AM
To: <gopher-project at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

>> - Keeps the initial items, along with the few more that were widely
>>   adopted for specific formats (e.g. pdf and png)
>> - Add new purpose-based item types (image, movie, document, ...) to be
>>   used with a new mime-type field
>> - Split the "unallocated blocks" of item types in purpose-based regions
>>   (e.g. new types in the range a-j should be used for images, j-o for
>>   movies)
>
> I would support this idea, with one addition: we need a way to handle the
> MIME types in a URL. One very simple way is URLs like
>
> gopher://foo.invalid/(text/plain)/manifesto.txt
>
> Clients not knowing the new format would treat ( as a new, unknown item 
> type
> and offer to download the file. However, servers would need to account for
> the situation of receiving selectors such as
>
> text/plain)/manifesto.txt
>
> from these clients. If that couldn't be easily identified,
>
> gopher://foo.invalid/M(text/plain)/manifesto.txt
>
> would be seen by those clients as M item type with selector
>
> (text/plain)/manifesto.txt
>
> and this would be even easier to identify. Smart clients, of course, would
> take the MIME information and parse the selector properly.
>
> I'd always prefer to put more work on the server side than the client 
> side.
>
> -- 
> ------------------------------------ personal: 
> http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
>  Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * 
> ckaiser at floodgap.com
> -- Where there's a will, there's a 
> probate. -----------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Gopher-Project mailing list
> Gopher-Project at lists.alioth.debian.org
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project