3.4.1. Gopher URL syntax
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3.4.1. Gopher URL syntax
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3.4.1. Gopher URL syntax
3.4.1. Gopher URL syntax
A Gopher URL takes the form:
gopher://<host>:<port>/<gopher-path>
where <gopher-path> is one of
<gophertype><selector>
<gophertype><selector>%09<search>
<gophertype><selector>%09<search>%09<gopher+_string>
If :<port> is omitted, the port defaults to 70. <gophertype> is a
single-character field to denote the Gopher type of the resource to
which the URL refers. The entire <gopher-path> may also be empty, in
which case the delimiting "/" is also optional and the <gophertype>
defaults to "1".
<selector> is the Gopher selector string. In the Gopher protocol,
Gopher selector strings are a sequence of octets which may contain
any octets except 09 hexadecimal (US-ASCII HT or tab) 0A hexadecimal
(US-ASCII character LF), and 0D (US-ASCII character CR).
Gopher clients specify which item to retrieve by sending the Gopher
selector string to a Gopher server.
Within the <gopher-path>, no characters are reserved.
Note that some Gopher <selector> strings begin with a copy of the
<gophertype> character, in which case that character will occur twice
consecutively. The Gopher selector string may be an empty string;
this is how Gopher clients refer to the top-level directory on a
Gopher server.
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