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- I'm looking for a mapping from gopher paths to URL's and in particular
- wonder how xMosaic, and in general WWW handles it, at first I thought
- it could be done by simplistically going
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- gopher://<site>:<port>/<path>
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- but although this works to retrieve files and menus, it fails for the
- type 7 query, this takes two forms - either with or without a search
- term.
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- I believe it was proposed that with a search term it should read
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- gopher://<site>:<port>/<path>?<searchterm>
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- but then what does a term without a query look like.
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- gopher://<site>:<port>/<path>
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- wont work because there is no way for a client to know that it needs to
- prompt the user for a search term, or does WWW always obtain a type from
- somewhere other than the URL?
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- - Mitra
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