Re: Gopher URLs in FAQs

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George Burgyan (gburgyan@cybercon.com)
Tue, 28 Feb 1995 20:37:57 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 28 Feb 1995, Tom Galloway wrote:

> As part of an updating of my FAQ, I'm including large numbers of URLs. When
> these go through the OSU html converter, they'll end up being clickable from
> within web browsers, and I'll essentially have managed to create the home
> page from hell for my topic.
>
> However, one archive site is set up as a Gopher. It also has a number of
> files that have spaces in their names, something that looks good on a screen
> but is a pain and a half when doing specific URLs. Could someone please tell me
> how the following should be written in order to be picked up as a working
> URL?
>
> gopher://cerebus.acusd.edu:70/pub/Comics/Interviews/Vincent Sullivan

All you should have to do is replace the spaces with "%20"s which are
hexidecimal for the space character. It may look ugly on the screen
though. :-/

> Thanks,
> tyg tyg@hq.ileaf.com

GB!

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