💾 Archived View for rawtext.club › ~sloum › geminilist › 002477.gmi captured on 2020-09-24 at 01:10:21. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content
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Alex Schroeder alex at gnu.org
Mon Aug 24 14:24:36 BST 2020
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A few sites out there offer both Gemini and web access. That's cool.It's a bridge to Gemini space. At first, as a developer who had writtenjust such a tool, I was exasperated: should I be linking to Gemini URLsor to web URLs, or both? Or translate them automatically in thebackground?
It turns out, this is not required. Just now, for example, I added linklike the following:
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//flounder.online/ Flounder, for simple web people
The magic of URLs is that the actual target depends on what you'relooking at: If you're looking at https://transjovian.org:1965/gemini/page/Sites then the link goes to https://flounder.online/ and when you're looking atgemini://transjovian.org/gemini/page/Sites then the link goes togemini://flounder.online/.
Now I'm just taking extra care such that as many URLs as possible arereachable using either scheme. If they are, then I can link to theseresources without specifying a scheme and it'll just work.
CheersAlex