First day as a gopher (gopherist?). I've just camped and admittedly
I've only devoted a couple hours to these matters but... I'm a bit
surprised that, being gopher such an aged technology, actual
documentation on its basic wiring is so scarce; or at least not
readily available.
There's a couple basic guide, good as a starting point I guess, but
no actual spec that I can see. Something that bothers me is that in
those I cannot actually tell what is standard and what is a given
server's extension.
So, what am I asking about? Well, I mean things like:
- What is the text encoding supposed to be? Is there any convention
in absence of an specification?
- Are lines supposed to be truncated with carriage returns? which
stile? UNIX? DOS? MAC? At any rate, at which damned column?
Sure, there must be an RFC specifying the network protocol in
great detail. I don't expect it to contain answers to any of those
simple questions. Will read anyways, you never know.
Of course I might be looking at the wrong places. Or maybe I'm just
missing on the 'general consensus' among the community.
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UPDATE:
Solderpunk already read a WIP state of this post and answered my
questions. Boy, I'm gona enjoy my stay here!
