Received: with LISTAR (v1.0.0; list gopher); Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:35:36 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: Delivered-To: gopher@complete.org Received: from tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts12.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.56]) by pi.glockenspiel.complete.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42003B813 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:35:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from sympatico.ca ([64.228.192.23]) by tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20020116213532.GLWF103.tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@sympatico.ca> for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:35:32 -0500 Message-ID: <3C45F1EA.476AD88E@sympatico.ca> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:34:34 -0500 From: Ralph Furmaniak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Re: Gopher+ Protocol Question References: <3C45F06C.9CB51796@sympatico.ca> Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 348 X-listar-version: Listar v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: sugaku@sympatico.ca Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-software: Listar version 1.0.0 X-List-ID: Gopher List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: List-archive: X-list: gopher Scratch that, this is what a gopher+ guide said, but the official protocol says otherwise. So if after the selector there is a tab and something, if it starts with one of +,!,$ it is gopher+, otherwise it is a search string. Do clients ever send an empty search string, then the gopher+ stuff? Ralph Furmaniak wrote: > >From what I read, Gopher+ clients should send after the selector > "F[search string]F[gopher+ stuff]" so that you can tell these two > apart. Is this always the case, ie is it fine to just split the string > between tabs and use them, or should I check to make sure that [search > string] is not actually the gopher+ string?