Debugging gopher
Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:37:36 +0100
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Lucio is working  on a new gopher server, goophy,  and  his  gopher
hole is running on it.[1]

However, using  Chawan, I  was getting  some '3Bad  Request' errors
that didn't  appear when  using Lynx. I  contacted the  Chawan dev,
bptato, who  found that for  him,  Chawan worked fine  with Lucio's
server. Curioser and curioser...
For some reason the CR was  getting  lost  between  my  laptop  and 
Lucio's server, but no idea why.

I also found that curl was getting the same error. Lucio fixed this
by modifying his network code. But Chawan was still borking.

Lucio removed the requirement for CR LF at the end of each request,
and Chawan worked fine, but bptato reckoned that was unwise, and 
figured that  it  was  his code that was at fault.

It turned out that CR was getting  eaten.  ~bptato  has  fixed  the 
Chawan code[2], and Lucio has re-integrated the  CR LF  requirement
as per the RFC. I'm quite chuffed that Lucio and I found these bugs
which have improved Goophy  while  ensuring  that  Chawan  stays  a 
marvellous gopher browser.

Please don't hesitate to visit Lucio's gopher server.  Perhaps I'll
adopt goophy one day? He also has an  RSS  feed  for   his   phlog. 
Recommended.

[1] gopher://lucio.albenga.es
[2] https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/commit/ec0b1b9a996c49ae83a75a11986fae4838f34385

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