Re: RFC: proxy conventions

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:20 PM Cameron Kaiser <spectre-nb4sah8SP49Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
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> > How does the proxy knows that it deals with a menu and, consequently, that it
> > needs to rewrite its entries?
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> Yes, that's the part I'm still pondering. It may just have to be content
> sniffing in that case.

I think you could just do it the same way gopher:// URLs handle this
problem? That is, rewrite our example menu as:

0About the server       @gopher.conman.org/0About:Server proxy.test      70
0About the author       @gopher.conman.org/0About:Me     proxy.test      70
1Gopher Server Source Code      @gopher.conman.org/1Gopher:Src:
proxy.test      70

...and then all the proxy has to do is only rewrite requests to
selectors that have a '1' there, and of course leave off that
character when sending the selector upstream.

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