[gopher] Updated Gopher RFC

[Wesley Teal]

On 5/8/12, Driedfruit <driedfruit at mindloop.net> wrote:

> The issue with CGI is that a complex user-supplied query is often
> needed to generate appropriate response.

CGI is a separate standard, even for HTTP. Several modern gopher
servers seem to implement CGI fairly well, or at least the subset of
it that's applicable to Gopher. I suppose a more fully-fledged "Gopher
Gateway Interface" could be worthwhile, but that's a whole new can of
worms.

>
> Gopher+ has this in +ASK definition. See also HTML forms that generate
> HTTP GET/POST requests.
>
> I'm seriously considering hijacking the CSO Phonebook entry for that
> matter, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea. Some very simple things
> could obviously be done with it, but posting whole blog posts or
> the like is much more problematic.

Simple user input can be handled via item type 7 queries. Awhile back
I wrote a phlogging script that handles comments that way
(gopher://sdf.org/1/users/wt/soft/my/germ) and I've seen a few other
scripts that use index server queries similarly.

You should hypothetically be able to handle more complex input with an
HTML form hooked up to a server-side script. I haven't tested this out
yet, but perhaps I could work up a proof- (or disproof-) of-concept
soon.

Alternatively, you could set up a server to accept input via email.

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