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Felix Queißner felix at masterq32.de
Wed Jun 10 11:33:36 BST 2020
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Heya!
This feels like a good idea to me. It's totally optional and very easy
to handle on both the client and server sides, and I feel like being
friendly to small/slow computers and slow/intermittent network
connections is a good fit with the overall "vibe" of Gemini, provided
doing so does not conflict with overall simplicity.Yes, i totally like that idea!
Naturally, deciding to do this will lead immediately to a weeks-long
heated debate on what the appropriate value of $THRESHOLD should be. We
*could* wade into those waters, but I'll just also throw out that we
could use 21, 22 and 23 to indicate payloads exceeding 1MiB, 10MiB or
100MiB respectively and leave it at that. Clients targetting
resource-limited environments could let their users configure their own
threshold for early termination of downloads.I had the exact same thoughts, and i think the idea of "wasting" 3status codes for 1, 10 and 100 MB are totally okay. It allows clients tobetter display a loading indication
Regards- xq