On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Joerg Dietze wrote: > > gopher://wizard.dyndns.org:70/9I/Xgopher.png > > If not that file directly, how about through the main > > menu at gopher://wizard.dyndns.org ? > > got it via menu. A. did not know mime type gopher/9 so I saved the png > to d/l dir and had a look there. No problem.
In gopher-speak, a file type of 9 indicates a binary. The I-type then further indicates said binary is of the "image" type. The gopher server I'm using has even more specifiers, some of which are to tell web browsers how to treat the files, but for now, I just wanted to make sure that a) my ISP wasn't blocking port 70, b) that my own firewall wasn't inadvertently blocking the port, and c) that the server is actually capable of giving out files which are requested to clients other than the ones I have access to. Now that I have that out of the way, I can see about making gopher more browser friendly. ;-) Clarence wrote: >> gopher://wizard.dyndns.org:70/9I/Xgopher.png > With Arachne1.66 (and the assorted stuff in the way) I got this message: > 3Server error: Corrupted cache entry [no tabs] error.host 0 > . (That dot was part of the message) Interesting. I got that when I had an extra CR at the end of the .cache file (menu). I wouldn't have expected that with the file itself. >> If not that file directly, how about through the main >> menu at gopher://wizard.dyndns.org ? > This works better. Since it is small, I've attached a .ZBM. <G> The "Error" at the end of the menu should be gone now. Most 'nix files want to end with a CR, but gn doesn't like the .cache file ended that way. > Trying to get some of your files via the links resulted in other errors: > The first one just resulted in a text screen with the word PNG on it. > The second (.BMP) was taking too long so I aborted. > The third resulted in another text screen of crap starting with GIF89a. > > Seems the proper file type are either not set or not transferred. Yes, so far, all files must be saved and then viewed separately. I'll be working on that soon. sodjiin wrote: > I got both with msie5. :) Hmmm... Did msie5 actually display the images, or did it just allow you to download them for later viewing? If msie can view them, I wonder why Arachne can't. ;-) - Steve
