[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[Damien Carol]

That's my purpose, to keep existing item and add Generic one.

MIME types related things will NOT be adopted for the same reasons that
Gopher+ failed...

Just keep gopher simple PLZ

2012/5/9 John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>

>  Just a couple of cents from someone that's been passively watching this
> discussion.  Feel free to ignore me ;-)
>
> If we might use one word to describe Gopher, it is "simple."  Gopher+
> somewhat violates this, and HTTP severely violates this.  MIME types have
> their uses, and the Web and email wouldn't work so well without them.
> However, even after all these years, they still aren't dealt with quite
> right.  If you click on a file on a Web server named foo.zip and the
> Content-Type header says it's image/gif, what happens?  And what happens
> after you do File -> Save in your browser, then try to open it up later?
> (Note: these two things are not normally the same!)
>
> Proper mailcap and MIME type handling could of course be added to Gopher.
> But I would ask: why?
>
> I think instead of adding more types, we could remove types and simplify.
> The would be:
>
>
>    - Plain text (ASCII or UTF-8)
>    - Binary data
>    - HTML text (ASCII or UTF-8)
>    - gopher directory
>    - info pseudo-type
>     - Media
>
> The "media" type would simply be binary data with a hint to the UI to
> attempt to display it based on its extension.
>
> There are existing item types in existing specs that all of the above map
> to.
>
> Let the client use its own mailcap, or whatever, to decide what to do with
> media data.
>
> -- John
>
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Damien CAROL
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