Re: Maximum send and recv length in Gopher

Emil Engler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.gopher.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I'm curious, isn't this the lenght you can enter in a telnet client for
example?
What is if you write your own TCP client which sends a request longer
than this.
Although this wasn't my question. I'm currently working on a gopherd and
I am not sure if I should support data transfer bigger than a certain size.

Am 15.06.20 um 09:13 schrieb Phantom Leveck:
> It is my understanding that this relies on the maximum command length of
> the OS running the gopherd. On linux run 
> 
> getconf ARG_MAX
> 
> to determine this. Please someone correct me if I am mistaken.
> 
> 15.06.2020, 01:09, "Emil Engler" <[email protected]>:
> 
>     Hi, what is the maximum length of a Gopher request and it's respond. Is
>     there even a fixed limit or not or maybe there is a de-facto standard?
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Emil
>
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