[gopher] New gopher proposal

[Kim Holviala]

On May 10, 2012, at 13:43 , Driedfruit wrote:

> On Fri, 11 May 2012 16:23:34 +0200
> Christoph Lohmann <20h at r-36.net> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> in  accordance  to the discussion on this list about some maybe flaws
>> of gopher I wrote down a simple proposal on how to do gopher but
>> including the modern ideas.
>> 
>> http://sprunge.us/DMSE
> 
> I have tested the \r\n$size\r\n$data approach for
> - bucktooth
> - gophernicus
> - gofish
> - pygopherd
> 
> Requesting both menus and files.
> 
> All four servers ignore everything after the first \r\n and handle the
> request correctly.

There are live servers on teh intertubes which cannot handle requests like that. Somewhere under .jp I think? Anyway, don't do that. I doesn't work.

And like I said before - if you do want to do that, probe caps.txt first.



- Kim