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From: Lawrence Woodman <lorrywoodman@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: morena.rip
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 10:29:39 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 12:04:32 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote:

> dn. Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:45:14 -0000 (UTC), morena@morena.rip napisał:
> 
>> It's my pleasure to announce there is now only one true
>> 100% RFC 1436 compliant gopher server morena.rip
>> 
>> Only true UMN gopher client loves it when command is with
>> the slash at the end. 'gopher gopher://morena.rip/'
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the issue. Are some gopher clients failing
> when the URL is trailed by a slash? I checked with gopherus right now,
> seems to work fine:
> 
> gopherus gopher://morena.rip/

It's an interesting one, considering that selectors shouldn't by default 
be thought of as a file path and therefore whether servers should strip
leading and trailing slashes is debatable. That Morena and many
servers do seems helpful if not arguably going against the RFC somewhat
and possibly problematic if this behaviour isn't configurable.

Lorry