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Illusory latency due to trailing slash redirects

Natalie Pendragon natpen at natpen.net

Sat Jun 27 22:06:00 BST 2020

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 03:28:17PM -0400, Charles E. Lehner wrote:

Search engines and link aggregators could also help.

For example, GUS has this entry:

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/servers

which is a redirect to:

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/servers/

Out of curiosity, do you remember the query that got you that searchresult? When I perform the below search, I only seem to be able tofind it with the trailing slash. Your result is surprising to mebecause GUS already does reliably follow (or at least I think it does:) trailing slash redirects and provide the redirected URL in searchresults.


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> gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/servers/ gemini.circumlunar.space/servers/ (text/gemini, 2K)* ...Geminispace is now growing at such a rate that maintaining an exhaustive list of servers by hand is no longer terribly practical or terribly useful. Thus, this list is no longer being...```