Re: [ANN] Specification update (v 0.16.0)

Hey!

Good to see progress being made towards finalisation. Hopefully the spec 
will be final soon!

> The first is that the specification is now explicit about what to do in 
the event that a request including a query component receives a 3x 
redirect status code in response: the redirect URL should be used as is, 
and the client should not apply the original request's query to the 
redirect URL.  If you are the author of a client which *does* modify 
redirect URLs in this way, you need to change this behaviour in order to 
be spec compliant.

Could you please elaborate on what "apply the original request's query to 
the redirect URL" means? I'm not sure what this forbids.

> The second is that the specification now explicitly forbids the use of 
Unicode byte order marks (BOMs) in either Gemini requests or Gemini 
response headers.  If your client or server includes a BOM in these 
places, you should stop doing that.  There will be a future update dealing 
with the use of BOMs in Gemini response bodies as well, but the changes I 
just pushed affect only response headers.

This would only apply to text/gemini, right? So not any arbitrary Unicode 
document (possibly under UTF-16 or UCS encodings)?

But welcome change anyway. BOMs suck!

Cheers,
almaember

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