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commit 6c9e39e916f752250680a56bc2dad229c040af7a

parent 2f292620fba218aa4d57117dadd4182799f25460

Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>

Date:   Sun, 26 Apr 2020 12:23:19 +0200

Add comment about special cases in request handling.

Diffstat:
  main.c                              |      12 ++++++++++++

1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/main.c b/main.c

t@@ -189,6 +189,18 @@ handlerequest(int sock, char *base, char *ohost, char *port, char *clienth,
                 return;
         }
 
+        /*
+         * Valid cases in gopher we overwrite here, but could be used for
+         * other geomyidae features:
+         *
+         *        request string = "?..." -> "/?..."
+         *        request string = "" -> "/"
+         *        request string = "somestring" -> "/somestring"
+         *
+         * Be careful, when you consider those special cases to be used
+         * for some feature. You can easily do good and bad.
+         */
+
         args = strchr(recvb, '?');
         if (args != NULL)
                 *args++ = '\0';