Document gopher+ redirect quirk. - geomyidae - A small C-based gopherd.
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DIR commit 28ba6b76c3cc61bdce1984cdc35733f704c22c52
DIR parent f4cac1fea572c34eaf23baef928d7aa313ae9ccf
HTML Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:18:09 +0100
Document gopher+ redirect quirk.
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@@ -328,6 +328,13 @@ All terms are tab-separated (per gopher protocol) which can cause some
surprises depending on how a script is written. See the CGI file (included
in the geomyidae source archive) for further elaboration.
.Pp
+QUIRK: The original gopher client tried to be too intellignet. It is using
+gopher+ when you request some resource. When "search" is just the value "+",
+"!", "$" or empty, geomyidae will display a gopher+ redirect instead of invoking the
+script. Be careful to design your search script so the user is unlikely to
+enter those values. The designers of gopher+ did not think of classic gopher
+to survive. It survived gopher+.
+.Pp
Additionally to the above arguments several environment variables are set.
.Pp
.Dl GATEWAY_INTERFACE = `CGI/1.1'