Well, it's not as nice as one might like, but you end up dealing with
timeouts in the process of transacting with the protocol anyway.
> If gopher doesn't need newlines then it seems to me the best solution
> is to just truncate the URL at the first newline.
I like this better than port number exclusions/restrictions, but it too
is non-deterministic. It works in the cases of SMTP and NNTP (as does
validating the service), but it's conceivable that some other service
could be maliciously invoked with a single-line command.
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