From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Wed Feb 21 05:10:35 2007 Subject: [gopher] Re: ascii art > Interestingly, the Bucktooth Gopher Server (which is what Floodgap uses) > accepts some wildcard symbols (such as the "#" symbol) and will, for > example, return the root directory contents if you type: > gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/# I did not evaluate the remainder of your message, but this analysis is not correct. What you're observing is a side effect of itemtype interpretation in URLs, and is not server specific (it also works with JumpJet). The # is not actually transmitted to the server; it is interpreted as the item type to a null request, which most browsers will interpret as an unknown item type and attempt to display as text. To prove that # is not salient to Bucktooth, % nc gopher.floodgap.com 70 # 0'/#' doesn't exist! error.host 1 . -- --------------------------------- personal: http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser@floodgap.com -- TRUE HEADLINE: Morning-After Pill Decision Delayed ------------------------- (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: ascii art (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: ascii art