Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list gopher); Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:03:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from dns2.eurnetcity.net ([80.68.196.9]) by glockenspiel.complete.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUsQk-0005KX-7P for gopher@complete.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:03:34 -0500 Received: from brillante.route-add.net (postfix@brillante.route-add.net [80.68.194.26] (may be forged)) by dns2.EurNetCity.NET (8.11.6p2-20030924/8.11.6) with SMTP id j9QKhTd15549 for <gopher@complete.org>; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:43:30 +0200 Received: from [192.168.110.4] (marana [192.168.110.4]) by brillante.route-add.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4249C1004 for <gopher@complete.org>; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:02:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <435FEEEC.4080901@route-add.net> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:02:36 +0200 From: Alessandro Selli <dhatarattha@route-add.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051014 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gopher@complete.org Subject: [gopher] Illegal or simply strange characters in gophermap Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-EurNetCity-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-EurNetCity-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: dhatarattha@route-add.net X-Spam-Status: No (score 0.1): AWL=0.106 X-Virus-Scanned: by Exiscan on glockenspiel.complete.org at Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:03:34 -0500 X-archive-position: 1135 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: gopher-bounce@complete.org Errors-to: gopher-bounce@complete.org X-original-sender: dhatarattha@route-add.net 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

I recently developed a script to automate the conversion and copying of files from an IMAPD server's directory where I store Usenet messages and a tree of directories where these files are fetched to be served by the Gopher server. The output filenames are the same as the Subject: line in the Usenet messages, plus a numerical index if more like Subject: lines are present. The script also generates or updates the gophermap file in each directory. Well, I found out I cannot access files whose name contains a question mark, if i try I get this error message (bucktooth-0.1pr6):

0'/Utenti/Alessandro/Usenet/it.comp.os.linux.sys/Re: Server Alpha, distro ' doesn't exist! error.host 1 .

The filename is: "Re: Server Alpha, distro ?" and the corresponding gophermap line is:

0Re: Server Alpha, distro ? Re: Server Alpha, distro ?

This is a nuisance considering the many subject: lines that are encoded in RFC-1522 MIME format, such as:

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re=3A_=5BOT=5D_Linux_kernel_FALLATO=3A_?=

Is this the right way a Gopher server is supposed to handle such filenames?

I'm considering editing the script to convert all question marks into something else; are there any more characters that I should catch before creating the files and updating the gophermap?

-- Alessandro Selli Tel: 340.839.73.05 http://alessandro.route-add.net