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authority's userinfo?

Felix Queißner felix at masterq32.de

Wed Jun 10 12:15:33 BST 2020

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How is gemini meant to deal with authority's userinfo?

gemini://username:password@mozz.us/

gemini://username@mozz.us/

Orthodox?

If so, how does the server communicate authentication failure back to the client? I don't think that user/password is the right way to handleauthentication in Gemini. The URL RFC also specifies:

Use of the format "user:password" in the userinfo field is

deprecated.

So only user@… is still a valid URL.

If your server handles user@ in a different way than without authority,i think that's totally in-spec, but authentication is probably not.

One possible usage for authority could be home-dirs instead of anofficial site:

Instead of using=

gemini://random-projects.net/~felix/one could also access the directory via=

gemini://felix@random-projects.net/

But that's just some brainfart.

Regards- xq

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986