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<td class="head-ltitle">SPACECOOKIE.GOPHERMAP(5)</td>
<td class="head-vol">File Formats Manual</td>
<td class="head-rtitle">SPACECOOKIE.GOPHERMAP(5)</td>
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<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="NAME"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME">NAME</a></h1>
<p class="Pp"><code class="Nm">spacecookie.gophermap</code> —
<span class="Nd">gophermap file format supported by
<a class="Xr" href="./spacecookie.1.html">spacecookie(1)</a></span></p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="permalink" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">A gophermap file allows to describe a gopher menu without the need
to include redundant information. The format supported by
<a class="Xr" href="./spacecookie.1.html">spacecookie(1)</a> has originally
been introduced by Bucktooth and is supported by most popular gopher server
daemons like for example
<a class="Xr" href="https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/pygopherd.8.en.html">pygopherd(8)</a>.</p>
<p class="Pp">A gophermap file stored as
‘<code class="Li">.gophermap</code>’ in a directory under the
gopher root of <a class="Xr" href="./spacecookie.1.html">spacecookie(1)</a>
is parsed and used as a gopher menu instead of the automatically generated
default variant. This allows users to customize the directory listings by
specifying informational text, links to files, (other) directories, gopher
servers or protocols themselves.</p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="FORMAT"><a class="permalink" href="#FORMAT">FORMAT</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">The format is plain text and line based. Both Unix and DOS style
line endings are allowed.
<a class="Xr" href="./spacecookie.1.html">spacecookie(1)</a> distinguishes
between two types of lines:</p>
<dl class="Bl-tag">
<dt id="info"><a class="permalink" href="#info"><b class="Sy">info
lines</b></a></dt>
<dd>Info lines are lines of text in a gophermap which don't have any special
format requirements except that they may not contain any tab characters.
<p class="Pp"></p>
<div class="Bd Bd-indent"><code class="Li">Any text which may contain
anything but tabs.</code></div>
<p class="Pp">They are also rendered als plain text without any associated
links to gopher clients which support them. Info lines are technically
not part of the gopher protocol nor mentioned in RFC1436, but this
protocol extension is widely supported and used.</p>
<p class="Pp">The usual purpose is to display additional text, headings and
decorative elements which are not directly related to other resources
served via gopher:</p>
<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li">
<pre>+------------------------------+
| Welcome to my Gopher Server! |
+------------------------------+
Below you can find a collection of files I deemed
interesting or useful enough to publish them.</pre>
</div>
<p class="Pp">Empty lines are interpreted as info lines which have no
content.</p>
</dd>
<dt id="menu"><a class="permalink" href="#menu"><b class="Sy">menu
entries</b></a></dt>
<dd>Lines describing menu entries are of the following form. All spaces are
for readability only and must not be present in the actual format.
Everything in brackets may be omitted, the semantics of which are
explained below.
<p class="Pp"></p>
<div class="Bd Bd-indent"><code class="Li">gopherfiletypeNAME\t [SELECTOR
[\tSERVER [\tPORT]]]</code></div>
<dl class="Bl-tag">
<dt id="gopherfiletype"><a class="permalink" href="#gopherfiletype"><i class="Em">gopherfiletype</i></a></dt>
<dd>File type character indicating the file type of the linked resource to
the client. See
<a class="Lk" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436#page-14">RFC1436</a>
for a list of valid file types. Additionally,
<a class="Xr" href="./spacecookie.1.html">spacecookie(1)</a> supports
‘<code class="Li">i</code>’ which indicates an info line
and ‘<code class="Li">h</code>’ which indicates an HTML
document.</dd>
<dt id="NAME~2"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME~2"><i class="Em">NAME</i></a></dt>
<dd>Name of the linked resource which will show up as the text of the menu
entry. May contain any characters except newlines and tabs.
<i class="Em">NAME</i> must always be terminated by a tab.</dd>
<dt id="SELECTOR"><a class="permalink" href="#SELECTOR"><i class="Em">SELECTOR</i></a></dt>
<dd>Gopher selector the entry should link to. Same restrictions in terms
of characters apply as for <i class="Em">NAME</i>, but there should
only be a tab character afterwards if another field is specified. If
it is omitted, the value of <i class="Em">NAME</i> is used. If the
<i class="Em">SELECTOR</i> starts with
‘<code class="Li">/</code>’, it is interpreted as an
absolute path and given to the client as-is. If it starts with
‘<code class="Li">URL:</code>’, it is assumed that it is
a link to another protocol and passed to the client without
modification (see below). In all other cases, it is assumed that the
selector is a relative path and is converted to an absolute path
before serving the menu to a client.
<p class="Pp">You can read more about
‘<code class="Li">URL:</code>’ links which are another
common gopher protocol extension in
<a class="Lk" href="http://gopher.quux.org:70/Archives/Mailing%20Lists/gopher/gopher.2002-02%7C/MBOX-MESSAGE/34">this
email from John Goerzen.</a></p>
</dd>
<dt id="SERVER"><a class="permalink" href="#SERVER"><i class="Em">SERVER</i></a></dt>
<dd>Describes the server <i class="Em">SELECTOR</i> should be retrieved
from. Same character restrictions apply and it must come after a tab
character as well. If it is omitted, the hostname of the server
generating the menu is used.</dd>
<dt id="PORT"><a class="permalink" href="#PORT"><i class="Em">PORT</i></a></dt>
<dd>Describes the port <i class="Em">SERVER</i> is running on. Must come
after a tab and is terminated by the end of the line or file. If this
field is left out, the server generating the menu uses its own
port.</dd>
</dl>
</dd>
</dl>
<p class="Pp">A gophermap file may contain any number of menu and info lines.
They are then converted to actual gopher protocol menu entries clients
understand line by line as described above.</p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="EXAMPLE"><a class="permalink" href="#EXAMPLE">EXAMPLE</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">Tabs are marked with ‘<code class="Li">^I</code>’
for clarity.</p>
<div class="Bd Pp Bd-indent Li">
<pre>spacecookie
===========
Welcome to spacecookie's gopher page!
Get a copy either by downloading the latest
stable release or cloning the development version:
hGitHub page^I URL:https://github.com/sternenseemann/spacecookie/
9latest tarball^I /software/releases/spacecookie-0.3.0.0.tar.gz
The following documentation resources should get you started:
0README^I README.md
1man pages^I manpages/
Other gopher server daemons (the first link only works
if this server is running on port 70):
1pygopherd^I /devel/gopher/pygopherd^I gopher.quux.org
1Bucktooth^I /buck^I gopher.floodgap.com^I 70</pre>
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<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="SEE_ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE
ALSO</a></h1>
<p class="Pp"><a class="Xr" href="https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/pygopherd.8.en.html">pygopherd(8)</a>,
<a class="Lk" href="gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/buck/dbrowse?faquse%201a">Bucktooth's
gophermap documentation</a> and
<a class="Lk" href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436#page-14">the file
type list from RFC1436</a>.</p>
<p class="Pp"><a class="Xr" href="./spacecookie.1.html">spacecookie(1)</a>,
<a class="Xr" href="./spacecookie.json.5.html">spacecookie.json(5)</a></p>
</section>
<section class="Sh">
<h1 class="Sh" id="AUTHORS"><a class="permalink" href="#AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a></h1>
<p class="Pp">The <code class="Nm">spacecookie.gophermap</code> documentation
has been written by <span class="An">sternenseemann</span>,
<a class="Mt" href="mailto:sterni-spacecookie@systemli.org">sterni-spacecookie@systemli.org</a>.</p>
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<td class="foot-date">October 3, 2022</td>
<td class="foot-os">NixOS</td>
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