Gopher+

Gopher+ is a forward compatible enhancement to the RFC

Request for Comments

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 [ftp://ftp.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1436.txt 1436] Gopher protocol. Gopher+ works by sending extra data between the client and the server.

How it works

The client sends a tab followed by a +. A Gopher+ server will respond with a status line followed by the content the client requested. An item is marked as supporting Gopher+ in the Gopher directory listing by a tab + after the port.

Other features

Other features of Gopher+ include:

• Item attributes, which can include the items
  • Administrator
  • Last date of modification
  • Different views of the file, like PostScript or plain text, or different languages
  • Abstract, or description of the item
• Interactive queries

External links

[gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/gopher/tech/gopherplus.txt Proposed Gopher+ Specification] (gopher link)