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Re: Gopher support

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 07:44:52 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, David Shaw wrote:

> I was playing around with libcurl today, and noted that the gopher
> support doesn't actually work.

Yes, "GOPHER transfers seem broken" are mentioned in the KNOWN_BUGS document
since quite a long time back.

> Are there even that many gopher servers left in the world at this point? I
> couldn't find more than 4 or so.

I don't know. It's been years since I last saw or used one. That's one of the
main reasons why I haven't bothered with libcurl's brokeness in this aspect.

I'd accept patches that correct this situation...

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Received on 2006-01-13