[gopher] Need advice

[Nuno J. Silva]

IIRC, when gopher extensions were last discussed here, we talked about
gopher+ and URLs for gopher+ features, and we found out that, while
there is indeed a standard mentioning %09/tab in the URL, ? was in
common usage as the separator. I guess because of issues with the tab
character.

Damien, can you point us a menu with such selectors with "?"? I'm
curious to see how will different clients play with URLs pointing there.


On 2012-05-15, Wolfgang Faust wrote:

> RFC 4266 specifies that %09 (TAB) be used to split the selector from the
> query, like this:
>
> gopher://<host>:<port>/<gophertype><selector>%09<search>
>
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Damien Carol <damien.carol at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm working on Gopher Client and I have a pb.
>>
>> My client works with URL.
>>
>> But for type item 7, I don't know how to manage them.
>>
>> Basically what my client do :
>>
>> URL =  gopher://example.com/7/search?foo%20bar      =>     request to [
>> example.com] port [70] wtih selector [/search<TAB>foo bar]
>>
>> BUT there are many gopher sites that use '?' in there selectors :/   what
>> a crap !
>>
>> Another detail, in RFC 4266 specify that '?' character is reserved for ASK
>> Gopher+ feature.
>>
>> What's your opinion gopherspace ?

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