[gopher] Support for MIME type

[Damien Carol]

I saw mp4 video and all sort of files under type '0' ...

Try FOSDEM part of "r-36.net" to see typical wrong use of type '0' item.

=> gopher://gopher.r-36.net:70/1/FOSDEM08

2012/5/17 Alistair <alistair at alistairsserver.no-ip.org>

> 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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