Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC
On Wed, 9 May 2012, 08:13:13 EEST, Driedfruit <driedfruit@mindloop.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2012 15:55:19 +0300
> Kim Holviala <kim@holviala.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >
> > You could do text boxes with todays browser clients using simple
> > forms and javascript :-).
>
> That means munching all the entered data into the selector, which is
> ascii7 in nature. Applying unicode or binary data is inheritly hard
> that way.
You're forgetting something: gopher is nothing but a straight through unrestricted two-way TCP connection between a gopher CGI app and the client. Why would you complicate things by encoding stuff and resubmitting when you can just keep the connection open?
- Kim
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