gopher "go to parent" renders parent as raw text - no links | bug | nightly build | osx about kristall HOT 2 OPEN

Looks like Go to parent should be disabled on Gopher as the URL encodes the file type, and we cannot know the parent file type. It most likely will be a directory/list, but we cannot be safe about that

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I think Gopher was intended to be very simple - Servers return either directory lists or "documents".
My attempt at being logical: A parent to a document would always be a text menu (directory list), unless the client is already at the "top" level of a server path.

Presumably the "connection closed" or timeout error is the old school way to know if there was anything at that address or not.
I will do more research on the protocol if that would be helpful.

I hope you'll reconsider disabling the "go to parent", unless disabling is a temporary solution, or the problem space is bigger than I understand. If you choose to disable it, perhaps convert this issue to a feature request?

I really like Kristall for its capabilities to handle gemini, gopher, and http(s). Haven't experimented with finger, but I like what I see very much in these other protocols. Thank you for all your work so far, and making it freely available.

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