[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[Driedfruit]

On Thu, 10 May 2012 16:24:09 +0300
Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:

> 
> 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?
> 

Please forgive my ignorance, that makes a lot of sense! But I'm still a
bit confused, how would one implement such workflow? I understand the
CGI keeping connection open and reading from stdin part, but not the
client sending raw data part. Could you elaborate?


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driedfruit