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author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-03-22 15:48:46 (GMT) |
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committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> | 1995-03-22 15:48:46 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libgopherlib.tex b/Doc/lib/libgopherlib.tex index eb50fdd..e94e1f9 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libgopherlib.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libgopherlib.tex @@ -3,4 +3,28 @@ \renewcommand{\indexsubitem}{(in module gopherlib)} -To be provided. +This module provides a minimal implementation of client side of the +the Gopher protocol. It is used by the module \code{urllib} to handle +URLs that use the Gopher protocol. + +The module defines the following functions: + +\begin{funcdesc}{send_selector}{selector\, host\optional{\, port}} +Send a \var{selector} string to the gopher server at \var{host} and +\var{port} (default 70). Return an open file object from which the +returned document can be read. +\end{funcdesc} + +\begin{funcdesc}{send_query}{selector\, query\, host\optional{\, port}} +Send a \var{selector} string and a \var{query} string to a gopher +server at \var{host} and \var{port} (default 70). Return an open file +object from which the returned document can be read. +\end{funcdesc} + +Note that the data returned by the Gopher server can be of any type, +depending on the first character of the selector string. If the data +is text (first character of the selector is \samp{0}), lines are +terminated by CRLF, and the data is terminated by a line consisting of +a single \samp{.}, and a leading \samp{.} should be stripped from +lines that begin with \samp{..}. Directory listings (first charactger +of the selector is \samp{1}) are transferred using the same protocol. |