Re: solution time for www/smtp hole
Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
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To: brian@eitech.com (Brian Smithson)
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Subject: Re: solution time for www/smtp hole
In-reply-to: Brian Smithson's message of Fri, 13 Aug 93 11:34:33 PDT.
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Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 15:20:56 -0500
From: Tony Sanders <sanders@bsdi.com>
Status: RO
> Alternatively, you could look for _any_ returned string upon initial connection
> and use that to decide that it isn't a gopher server, because gopher servers
> connect silently. This would at least rule out ftp, smtp, telnet, nntp, and
> all other services which announce their presence upon initial connection.
> Are there any other recognized services which do _not_ announce themselves?
You can't look for returned strings because that's non-deterministic
and doesn't solve the problem (as it's based on a timeout).
If gopher doesn't need newlines then it seems to me the best solution
is to just truncate the URL at the first newline.
--sanders