Should Gemini clients alert users upon redirect?

Revisiting this issue, I want to clarify what my position was and is.

Bogan's case is that you don't want to be doing a bunch of 301s&31s from
unslashed to slashed all day every day.

I agree with that, and my site was definitely borked (both on HTTPS and
Gemini) for being set up to do just that.

Bogan's solution is that you add slashes to links.

I am not onboard with that solution but have now found another solution.
Instead of 301/31, the unslashed versions will now serve the text
directly.

This is what I intended all along, I just could not figure out how to do
it properly because I am secretly really bad at computers^W being
motivated to hack on server stuff.

In the future I might add 301/31 from slashed to unslashed, since that's
the canonical version. That's a project for another day though.

Thanks to everyone for their patience with how messed up my capsule has
been.

Sandra

Sandra Snan <sandra.snan at idiomdrottning.org> writes:

> That might be me.
>
> I am already aware of Bogan's case, I read it back in 2002.
> I find the arguments for slashless more convincing than the arguments against.
>
> Please just change that setting in the client.
>
> Thank you?
>
>
>
> mailinglists at ngalt.com writes:
>
>> Background reading:
>>
>> => https://alistapart.com/article/slashforward/
>>
>> In the above article, Dan Bogan makes a case for adding slashes to the 
end of all URLs.? I thought it was convincing, so that's how I've been rolling for years.
>>
>> One of my current favorite Gemini clients, by default, alerts the user 
when following a link and gives the user an option to continue or abort the navigation.
>>
>> One of the capsules I visit from both CAPCOM and Spacewalk has links 
that are all trailing-slashless. Not only are the links in 
CAPCOM/Spacewalk slashless, but the intra-capsule links are as well.
>>
>> Should I be sending a polite change request to the author of the 
capsule, to the maintainer of the Gemini client, to both, or neither? At 
least with the Gemini client, I could send along a patch to change the default.
>>
>> ----
>>
>> ? Time and CMS changes have not been good to the article. You'll need 
to hover over the links in the code snippets and look at your link-preview 
bar/popup to see what he's talking about.

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