[gopher] bandwidth overhead for gopher

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Sat Jan 24 05:24:55 UTC 2015


> The client could determine it by filename suffix.  The binary type is
> generic anyway: I don't think a gopher client really knows what kind of
> binary file it's getting.

Right. Firefox used to content-sniff some of this but Overbite doesn't.

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