[gopher] Support for MIME type

Alistair alistair at alistairsserver.no-ip.org
Thu May 17 13:36:49 UTC 2012


On 17/05/2012 14:24, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Still, though, I'm thinking a separate MIME type would be better since all
> current clients just dump out type 0 without further interpretation. 'M'
> has been suggested.
>

Indeed, type 0 should be human readable imo. It would certainly be 
annoying if servers started serving up gobbledeygook as type 0.

I too think it should be separate selector like uuencoded files are, so 
that clients that know they can't handle it can just ignore it.

Alistair.



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