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Phil Leblanc philanc at gmail.com

Thu Jun 25 16:33:47 BST 2020

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On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:50 AM julienXX <julien at sideburns.eu> wrote:

What's wrong with gopher, http 0.9 or 1.0 if you don't want encryption?

I guess one could also ask "What's wrong with https if you wantencryption?" -- and the answer could be the same :-)

The best real answer has been provided by Solderpunk:here:gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/cornedbeef/why-not-just-use-a-subset-of-http-and-html.gmi

It applies as well to Gemini with or without TLS.

Phil