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             Well, the bugs start coming and they don't stop coming
                                        
As soon as I find one bug [1] than I find another one.

In an unrelated program.

Sigh.

In this case, the bug was in my gopher server [2], or rather, the custom
module for the gopher server [3] that serves up my blog entries. Earlier this
month, I rewrote parts of that module [4] to convert HTML (HyperText Markup
Language) to text and I munged the part that serves up ancillary files like
images. I found the bug as I was pulling links for the previous entry [5]
when I came across this entry [6] from last year about the horrible job Lynx
[7] was doing converting HTML to text. In that post, I wrote what I would
like to see and I decided to check how good of a job I did.

It's pretty much spot on, but I for some reason decided to view the image on
that entry (via gopher), and that's when I found the bug.

The image never downloaded because the coroutine handling the request
crashed, which triggered a call to assert() causing the server to stop
running.

Oops.

The root cause was I forgot to prepend the storage path to the ancilliary
files. And with that out of the way … [8] 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2020/07/24/1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org:70/1
[3] https://github.com/spc476/port70
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2020/07/04/1
[5] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2020/07/24.2
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/08/08.1
[7] https://lynx.invisible-island.net/
[8] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2020/07/24.4

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