itype 3 as generic status Re: To evolve or not to evolve
> The one thing I do miss from HTTP is the ability to redirect a request.
> So, as an experiment, I added the ability to mark a selector as having been
> moved, using the standard gopher error mechanism. So, if you attempt to
> retreive the selector '/Phlog:' on my server [1], you'll get:
>
> 3Permanent redirect Phlog: gopher.conman.org 70
>
> This came about because a gopher page I regularly referenced suddenly
> disappeared, and it took me a while to find that the page had moved to a new
> selector.
>
> I also added the ability to mark pages as gone. I don't have an actual
> example of that, but it would look like:
>
> 3Gone foobar gopher.conman.org 70
I like this concept, but since not everyone's language is English, maybe there
should be a code followed by the text, like
31: Permanent redirect\t...
32: Gone\t...
This looks good on screen, and a client can parse the number no matter what the
text is.
Ultimately, all this is convention and doesn't exclude any client, which is
what I like best about Gopher.
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