I don't fully understand this. Port to connect to. Default is 70. String to send to the gopher server. Default is the empty string.
First character is the type character, rest of characters are human-readable name of object.
A request to provide an editing session for a property. The advantage of this over dot-quoting is that it should be fairly easy for the client to figure out if there's been some breakage on the server end and the transmission has terminated early. The request line contains all the data necessary. Z A request to retrieve a document from a gopher server.