Despite warning that gopher selectors are opaque identifiers [1] and even setting up a type of redirect for gopher [2] there are still gopher clients making requests with a leading “/”. This is most annoying with the automatic clients collecting phlog feeds. I expected that after six months people would notice, but nooooooooooooooo!
Sigh.
So I decided to make the selector /phlog.gopher valid, but to serve up a modified feed with a note about the opaque nature of gopher selectors. Yes, it's passive aggressive, but there's not much I can do about people not getting the memo. Maybe this will work …