[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[Kim Holviala]

On Wed,   9 May 2012, 08:13:13 EEST, Driedfruit <driedfruit at mindloop.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 May 2012 15:55:19 +0300
> Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > 
> > You could do text boxes with todays browser clients using simple
> > forms and javascript :-).
> 
> That means munching all the entered data into the selector, which is
> ascii7 in nature. Applying unicode or binary data is inheritly hard
> that way.

You're forgetting something: gopher is nothing but a straight through unrestricted two-way TCP connection between a gopher CGI app and the client. Why would you complicate things by encoding stuff and resubmitting when you can just keep the connection open?


- Kim