[gopher] GopherMole - a gopher media crawler

[James Mills]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Mateusz Viste <mateusz at viste.fr> wrote:

> That's what I was suggesting, yes.
>
> One could argue that a single server might contain a plethora of
> documents, each of which would be encoded in a specific charset, and that's
> certainly a possibility. But in practice, I have always seen servers saying
> (in human language, mainly on their root page) "this server is serving
> content in utf-8", and rarely or never "this specific document is encoded
> in xyz".
>
> But still, the CAPS capability I was suggesting was about a "default"
> encoding, that is, "if not specified otherwise, assume everything on this
> server is encoded in this encoding". That way, if one day there is a
> mechanism that allows to specify the charset on a per-document basis, both
> won't collide (although I doubt such specific mechanism will appear, but of
> course one can never be sure of the future).
>
> Currently, gopher clients are supposed to assume ISO Latin 1, as per RFC
> 1436. The ServerDefaultCharset CAPS setting I was suggesting in my message
> from 31st of December, 2014, was simply a way to overload that RFC charset.
>

well to that end I've decided it's trivial enough to publish this
"configuration item" in cgod

gopher://daisy.shortcircuit.net.au/0/caps.txt

cheers
James



James Mills / prologic

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