[gopher] New gopher proposal

[Christoph Lohmann]

Greetings.

On Sat, 12 May 2012 09:15:00 +0200 Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:
> 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.

Caps.txt  looks like a way to make gopher client development a pita.  If
you want to use newer features you will have to send at  least  two  re‐
quests, of which one implies parsing an arbitrary file.

I  can’t support this. Such complexity is the reason why I am still sup‐
porting gopher over the web.


Sincerely,

Christoph