diff --git a/gosher b/gosher
index 471155e..eeab47b 100755
--- a/gosher
+++ b/gosher
@@ -134,9 +134,9 @@ fi
 ## function
 invalid_selector(){
 	sel="$1"
-	echo "3Error: Invalid selector: \"$sel\""
+	echo "[$(date +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M:%S)|ERROR|${sel}|\"\"]" >&2
+	printf "3Error: Invalid selector\tErr\t\t\r\n.\r\n"
 # shellcheck disable=SC1117
-	printf ".\r\n"
 	exec 1>&-
 	exec 2>&-
 	exit 1
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ serve_selector(){
 	sel="$1"
 
 	cat "${sel}"
-	echo "$0: selector $sel served -- exiting " >&2
+	echo "[$(date +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M:%S)|SELECTOR|${sel}|\"\"]" >&2
 	exec 1>&-
 	exec 2>&-
 	exit 0
@@ -160,6 +160,8 @@ serve_index(){
         IDX=$1
         IFS='
 '
+	
+	echo "[$(date +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M:%S)|GPH|${IDX}|\"\"]" >&2
         while read -r line; do
                 rline=$(echo "$line" | sed -r -e 's/\r//g')
                 case "$rline" in
@@ -184,6 +186,8 @@ serve_index(){
 ## function
 serve_redirect(){
 	url=$1
+	
+	echo "[$(date +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M:%S)|REDIRECT|${url}|\"\"]" >&2
 	cat<< EOF
 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
 <html>
@@ -205,7 +209,7 @@ EOF
 serve_cgi(){
 	script_name=$( echo "$1" | sed -r 's:^/+::')
 	query_string="$2"
-	echo "serving script_name: ${script_name} with query_string: ${query_string}" >&2
+	echo "[$(date +%Y-%m-%d\ %H:%M:%S)|CGI|${script_name}|\"${query_string}\"]" >&2
         GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1"
         PATH_INFO="${script_name}"
         PATH_TRANSLATED="${script_name}"
@@ -223,6 +227,8 @@ serve_cgi(){
 	export REMOTE_ADDR REMOTE_HOST REQUEST_METHOD SCRIPT_NAME 
 	export SERVER_NAME SERVER_PORT SERVER_PROTOCOL SERVER_SOFTWARE
 	${GOPHERDIR}${script_name} "" "${query_string}" "${HOSTNAME}" "${PORT}" 2>&1
+	exec 1>&-
+	exec 2>&-
 	exit $? 
 }
 
@@ -243,7 +249,7 @@ selector=$(echo "$selector" | sed -r 's:\$.*::g;s:\r::g' )
 case $selector in
 	URL:*)
 		## it's a special URL selector
-		url=$(echo "$selector" | cut -d ":" -f 2-)
+		url=$(echo "$selector" | cut -d ":" -f 2- | sed 's:^//::g')
 		serve_redirect "$url"
         ;;
 	/?*.cgi*)