Proposal about content-size and hash

On Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:33:31 +0000
khuxkm at tilde.team wrote:
> I think this is an apples to oranges comparison; 5.5.2 has to do with
> the text/gemini media type, which, while it is a part of the spec,
> isn't protocol based (i.e; I could serve text/gemini on a web server
> if I really wanted to)

I'm referring to this in the context of the spec, not the protocol
itself.

> Just for the sake of it, I really want to try and make a remote shell
> in Gemini CGI, just to prove a point. You can do it already, with the
> protocol as-is; send the command as a query to a CGI endpoint

Great, that'd be a creative way to make use of the limitations of a
protocol instead of suggesting adding more.

> Okay, but with all due respect, what does that have to do with
> content size? CGI isn't going to help the fact that the protocol
> currently has no way to indicate "this is how big the response will
> be" or "this is the hash of the file". Those questions, at least in
> my opinion, need to be answered at the protocol level, unless we're
> going to make a .well-known for Gemini.

With all due respect, EOF should be an indicator.

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