itemtype -------- The itemtype is a special character which tells your Gopher client what to do with the document it gets back. Typically, this is the first character after the hostname block in the URL: gopher://rodentia.mouse.invalid:70/1/micepics ^ itemtype Itemtype 1 indicates a directory. Other common itemtypes: 0 text file 7 indexed search server 8 Telnet connection 9 binary file g .gif image I any kind of image (client figures out what to do) For a complete list, see RFC-1436, which is on this site.