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                  Gopher selectors are OPAQUE people! OPAQUE!
                                        
Despite warning that gopher selectors are opaque identifiers [1] and even
setting up a type of redirect for gopher [2] there are still gopher clients
making requests with a leading “/”. This is most annoying with the automatic
clients collecting phlog feeds. I expected that after six months people would
notice, but nooooooooooooooo! 

Sigh.

So I decided to make the selector /phlog.gopher valid, but to serve up a
modified feed with a note about the opaque nature of gopher selectors. Yes,
it's passive aggressive, but there's not much I can do about people not
getting the memo. Maybe this will work … 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/09/30.3
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/09/30.4

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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