Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:08:47 -0500 (EST) Return-Path: <hardburn@runbox.com> Delivered-To: gopher@complete.org Received: from aibo.runbox.com (aibo.runbox.com [193.71.199.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by gesundheit.complete.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98CD64460 for <gopher@complete.org>; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:08:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.9.9.9] (helo=fetch.runbox.com) by tramp.runbox.com with esmtp (Exim 4.05-VA-mm1) id 17r2Am-0007x1-00 for gopher@complete.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:08:44 +0200 Received: from [208.166.200.157] (helo=enterprise) (Authenticated Sender=hardburn) by fetch.runbox.com with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17r2AE-0002Ts-00 for gopher@complete.org; Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:08:10 +0200 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: Timm Murray <hardburn@runbox.com> To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Re: Encouraging MIME types Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:14:00 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0209151425340.17699-100000@pinkstuff.publication.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0209151425340.17699-100000@pinkstuff.publication.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200209161514.04390.hardburn@runbox.com> X-archive-position: 693 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: hardburn@runbox.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: gopher@complete.org List-help: <mailto:ecartis@complete.org?Subject=help> List-unsubscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=unsubscribe> List-software: Ecartis version 1.0.0 List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> X-List-ID: Gopher <gopher.complete.org> List-subscribe: <mailto:gopher-request@complete.org?Subject=subscribe> List-owner: <mailto:jgoerzen@complete.org> List-post: <mailto:gopher@complete.org> List-archive: <http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/> X-list: gopher

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On Sunday 15 September 2002 08:31, Thomas Thurman wrote: > On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Trevor wrote: > > Cameron Kaiser wrote: > > > > 2) A new Gopher type, 'm', is to be implemented which tells a client > > > > to check the MIME type in the Gopher+ space. > > > > > > This is a nice idea, but what should a non-Gopher+ client do with it? > > > > a non-gopher+ client should just ignore it or identify it as an unknown > > type > > Perhaps we could have another type to pass the MIME type into gopher0 > clients: say '^' could mean that the label part of the line contains the > MIME type of the most recent line of type 'm'. <snip>

I would assume that any clients that don't support Gopher+ now (or won't do so soon) aren't being updated anyway. So it's rather silly to add anything new to the Gopher0 protocol.

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