From: gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org
       Date: Sat Sep 11 09:33:54 2010
       Subject: [gopher] Gophernicus, caps and revival of gopher++
       
       [insert witty greeting here]
       
       Inspired by brother Jay of quix.us fame I started coding gophery stuff 
       again...
       
       First thing I did this morning was adding native support for Cameron's 
       caps.txt (see gopher://gophernicus.org/0/caps.txt for a live example). 
       The format of my caps.txt is pretty identical to that from Cameron, 
       apart from the comments which I removed (keeps the code cleaner).  I did 
       add one key to it which I think it fairly important (forget the Output* 
       headers, those were just for testing):
       
       ServerProtocol=RFC1436
       
       This tells the client which protocol the server confirms to. I guess 
       pygopherd could change that to "gopher+":
       
       ServerProtocol=gopher+
       
       Or maybe like this:
       
       ServerProtocol=RFC1436, gopher+
       
       Or how about
       
       ServerProtocol=RFC1436
       ServerProtocol=gopher+
       
       ANYWAY.
       
       This got me thinking about my failed attempt at extending the protocol 
       to make it possible for the client to include metadata in the request. I 
       had to scrap the extensions because some servers just didn't like the 
       extra stuff... So, with caps.txt the client could first query the server 
       about the protocol, and if caps says it's ok to have extra metadata then 
       it could send 'em.
       
       Or something like that.
       
       Comments? Ideas?
       
       
       
       - Kim
       
       
       
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