From: gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org Date: Tue May 8 20:49:04 2012 Subject: Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC On Tue, 08 May 2012 17:08:17 +0100 Alistair <alistair@alistairsserver.no-ip.org> wrote: > Trouble is there's a gazillion kinds of file and soon you end up with a > huge mess like mimetypes. Why do you think mime types are a mess? IMHO it's the only way to reliably tell the file type without analyzing the file itself. With one letter item types you won't get very far. Especially if you're restricted to 7-bit ascii or even any 8-bit encoding. I wonder what would happen if we added a m item type (as in mime-type) which has an additional TAB mime-type added at the end of the line. How many clients would break? Dennis Yours sincerely, Dennis Schulmeister -- Dennis Schulmeister - Schifferstr. 1 - 76189 Karlsruhe - Germany Tel: +49 721/5978883 - Fax: +49 721/5978882 - Mob: +49 152/01994400 Mail: dennis@windows3.de - Web/Gopher: there-is.no-ip.org _______________________________________________ Gopher-Project mailing list Gopher-Project@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gopher-project Thread start (DIR) [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC (DIR) Followup: Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC