Hello Geminauts, I have a weird issue that came up when coding stuff on Asuka (my client) and maybe you can help. I?m adding support for opening whatever mime type a Gemini server is serving me. The logic I implemented so far is: - serve text/* in the client as usual - serve the other mime types by downloading content to a temporary file and opening it with xdg-open, open... In order to download the served content I first check the header as string, get its size as bytes, re-fetch the whole ?page? as bytes, reverse the bytes array, truncate it with the header length and finally reverse it again before writing it to a file. My issue is I have to add an offset of 5 bytes to the truncation for the files to be readable and I have no idea why. I tested this offset on several servers that are serving images, tarballs... and it looks consistent. Does it ring a bell by any chance? Or maybe I?m doing all of this completely wrong.
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