On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 00:50:18 -0500 Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote: > It was thus said that the Great khuxkm at tilde.team once stated: > > > > This can't happen, though, because the first proposal breaks the > > compatibility of <META> in response codes within a block, and the second > > one is just debating which of the codes we should add. > > This *did* happen, back on November 3rd. > > gemini://gemi.dev/gemini-mailing-list/messages/003015.gmi > > And it's already received over a hundred hits. You're mistaking the sense in which khuxkm is saying that it can't happen. It did happen in the sense that you implemented a server for a protocol that works like this. It can't happen in the sense that it fundamentally breaks compatibility with clients that only concern themselves with the first digit of the response code. That you've implemented the resulting protocol of your suggested change has no bearing on the argument. The overflowing of 2x code resulting from a combinatorial hell is entirely self-inflicted through your choice to ignore this aspect of the existing specification. I've already suggested to you a way to avoid this (use a different first digit). This additionally avoids having to rewrite 3.2 of the spec and invalidate existing clients that take for granted that "the first digit alone provides enough information for a client to determine how to handle the response". Moreover, with TLS already having a mechanism to signal the intended end of a connection, I don't think that content size is a pressing issue. It would allow for download progress bars, but adds nothing over TLS in terms of ensuring that the content is fully received. -- Philip -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 488 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201108/213b a640/attachment.sig>
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