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Subject: Fw: Undocumented UMN gopherd feature
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2024 10:54:44 -0800
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Date: 2024-02-11T10:51:01-0800
From: Viatrix
To: gopher-project@other.debian.org
Subject: Undocumented UMN gopherd feature

Hi gophers;
I believe I've discovered an undocumented feature of UMN gopherd!
The feature is: A request ending with 0x09 0x2B (tab plus) will be
treated as a Gopher0 request, not a Gopher+ request. I believe the
intent is to indicate Gopher+ support in URLs without breaking
Gopher0 clients; e.g. <gopher://example.com/0/selector%09%2B>. It causes
no overlap because a Gopher+ request will have a mime-type of non-zero
length after the plus-sign.

Did anyone know of this feature? Do any clients / any other servers
implement it?

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