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<META> overloading...

Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com

Fri May 29 03:10:40 BST 2020

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Presently, a successful status code may look like:

20 text/gemini; charset=utf-8

Would it be reasonable to consider the structure of <META> as equivalent to a modernized MIME header?

We already have the charset, so... as we have 1024 bytes to play with...

... we could add a couple of further information such as Content-Length [1], Content-Disposition [2], Content-Language [3], and Date[4]..

Perhaps something like this:

20 text/gemini; charset=utf-8; length=28102; name="Speculative specification"; date=2020-05-26; language=en-US

A slim 107 bytes altogether. All optional.

Heresy?

-- PA

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Length[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Disposition[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Language[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Date