From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre@stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Message-Id: <200204061637.IAA19492@stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Subject: [gopher] Re: Pygopherd nearing gopherd replacement
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020406171824.009e8c40@um1b.pce.de> from Wolfgang
 Zekoll at "Apr 6, 2 05:39:48 pm"
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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:37:37 -0800 (PST)
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> When I tried to drop the leading type character in the gopher selectors
> I discovered the following problem.  The server receives the request
> 
>          /fooFsomedata
> 
> with `F' being a tab character.  Now the question for the server is if
> `/foo' is of type 7 or not.  In the first case `somedata' is the query
> string in the second it's a gopher+ attribute.

bucktooth (original fork) kludges for this by checking if /foo is executable.
If it is, then it treats somedata as a query always.

This is further aided by the fact that I removed G+ from bucktooth :-)

I don't know how Ralph's branch handles this.

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