humble suggestions to specs documentation

Would <SINGLE SPACE> be useful here? If I recall it had gone from any
whitespace to single whitespace? so that might make it unambiguous?

J

On Tue, May 26, 2020, 13:07 solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 06:33:57PM +0200, cage wrote:
> > Hi!
>
> Howdy!
>
> > I  find  gemini very  exciting,  bringing  back  some fun  in  network
> > programming!
>
> Happy to hear it! :)
>
> > 1.3.1
> >
> > Gemini response headers look like this:
> >
> > <STATUS> <META><CR><LF>
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > In my opinion the space character between <STATUS> and <META> could be
> > a symbol not the character itself something like:
> >
> > <STATUS><SPACE><META><CR><LF>
> >
> > this  way it  is much  more difficult  that the  reader could  miss or
> > misunderstand the single space in the response line.
>
> This makes sense, I will make the change.
>
> > I think would be a good idea to include some code snippets (maybe in C
> > with libssl?) to illustrate how to do server validation or make client
> > certificate.
> >
> > I the code was  too long could be added in an  appendix or some code
> > form an existing implementation can be linked, i do know.
>
> I think code examples are beyond the scope of a specification, and would
> be far too long if we tried to provide good coverage.  But I've thought
> for a while now some kind of "implementer's guide" as a separate
> document would be a good idea.  Specifically, it would be nice to have
> code in many languages / libraries for setting up TLS 1.2 to use only
> the more secure cipher suites.
>
> > I think there is a minor typo in the FAQ:
> >
> > ### 1.3 Where can I learn more?
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Official discussion regarding Gemini hapens on a mailing list.
> >
> > [...]
> >
>
> Fixed!
>
> > Bye and thank you for gemini!
>
> Thanks for taking the time to make these suggests.
>
> Cheers,
> Solderpunk
>
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