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> By the way, I just discovered a mail in my spam-filter from you about some > problem with the World Gopher list. I fixed it and it seems to work now -- > sorry about that. Typo :-)

Excellent!

> *and* :-) One tiny suggestion -- maybe make it turn "GET /" selectors into > real HTTP URLs?

I used to do that, but I removed it after deciding that it's contrary to the spec. My interpretation is that the 'h' type denotes an HTML document stored on a gopher server. According to the spec, selectors have no meaning. There's nothing stopping 'GET /whatever.html' from being a selector for a gopher server, so turning it into an HTTP request is incorrect.

I create web links by creating an HTML document on the gopher server that redirects the user to the destination web site. It works well with everything.

I don't handle HTML documents correctly yet. Web->gopher should go through and re-write all the URLs so that relative links work.