Introduction The Gopher URL scheme specifies the format of URL used for distributed document search and retrieval using the Internet Gopher Protocol. Each item is identified with a Gopher type and user-visible name. It supports associating arbitrary number of attributes and alternate data representations with a Gopher item. This document updates that specification. If the optional port is omitted, the port defaults to 70. is a single character field to denote the Gopher type of the resource to which the URL refers to.
Gopher uses the combination to terminate a line in the request.
Gopher clients send the selector string to the Gopher server to retrieve an item. The gopher-type field is used by clients to interpret the response type expected. Note that some strings begin with a copy of the character, in which case the character will occur twice in the URL consecutively. Within the , no characters are reserved. The clients are not permitted to make any interpretation of the selector string.