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From: Aaron Angel <aangel@myrealbox.com>
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Subject: [gopher] Re: Existing \n.\n behavior
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A few added notes, mostly regarding IE6.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 09:27:00AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> Testing \n.\n in the middle of a file
> -------------------------------------
> Clients:
>    [...]
>    IE 5.1/mac: aborts transfer at \n.\n

IE 6 ignores the \n.\n rule altogether, it seems.

> 
> Testing \n.\n at the end of a file
> ----------------------------------
> Clients:
>    [...]
>    IE: strips it

IE 6, ignoring the rule, doesn't strip it.

> 
> Testing no \n.\n at all
> -----------------------
> Clients:
>    [...]
>    IE: no problems

Likely the same with 6, but I can't really tell.

> 
> UMN gopherd server behavior
> ---------------------------
>    Normal file (no \n.\n in it): adds \n.\n at end
>    File with \n.\n in middle: passes it through, adds \n.\n at end
>    File with \n.\n at the end: passes it through, adds another \n.\n

I believe bucktooth doesn't have any odd quirks with these
circumstances either.

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