[gopher] Support for MIME type
Kim Holviala
kim at holviala.com
Thu May 17 17:43:11 UTC 2012
On May 17, 2012, at 20:20 , Christoph Lohmann wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:20:10 +0200 Damien Carol <damien.carol at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Movie files are not defined in the original gopher RFC, so it is no
> wrong usage. Every unknown ending is defined by geomyidae to be a binary
> stream.
Yup, except type 0 is US-ASCII text (or Latin-1, or UTF-8 - no one really knows). All unknown files should be type 9 binaries.
Kim
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