From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Mon Aug 4 02:30:10 2008 Subject: [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions Mate Nagy <k-zed@hactar.net> writes: > Hulloh, >> A possible workaround: get the parent menu (using the same method I >> mentioned before - I don't remember anything stating the selectors are >> supposed to be built with a slash between each directory name, I need to >> read the rfc again (even if gopher is supposed to be hierarchical, what >> prevents some server from using dots instead of slashes for directory >> separators?)), check the mime-type (for the mime-in-the-menu approach), >> or check if the entry has gopher+ data (then retrieve such data). > > Exactly - you can't rely on '/' being the separator, or that the last > section cut off yields the valid parent dir, or even that there are > directories. And here goes an example against the method I suggested. An url pointing at a jumpjet resource: gopher://VE131.jumpjet.info/99%5cCEM%5cDisaster%3dAir%5cAre_You_Ready-Hurricane.pdf ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ <snip/> -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) LEIC student at Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon, Portugal Homepage: http://njsg.no.sapo.pt/ Gopherspace: gopher://sdf-eu.org/11/users/njsg Registered Linux User #402207 - http://counter.li.org -=-=- ``Is there any way I can help without actually getting involved?'' -- Jennifer, WKRP