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A client SHOULD NOT send the fragment part of a URL to the server?

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG

Tue Jun 9 21:00:19 BST 2020

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On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 09:46:56PM +0200, Petite Abeille wrote:

"A client SHOULD NOT send the fragment part of a URL to the server."

-- Sean Conner, Resource request format for Gemini' states, circa 2019-08-01

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.conman.org/gRFC/0002

Such restriction is not reflected in the spec itself.

At the same time, the spec mentions header lines as "machine-readable representation of the internal structure of the document".

Could one reflect such structure using fragments?

E.g.:

gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gm#5.4+Core+line+types

Part of the gemini canon?

It's certainly something people have suggested. I guess to make it workreliably would require a very strict specification of how to transformheadings into fragments, which sounds fiddly and dull...

Either that, or we allow just numeric fragments like 3.2, which theclient is supposed to map to the second subsection of the third section.

Sounds like a pain to implement in terminal clients, at least.

Cheers,Solderpunk