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solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG

Wed Jun 10 21:31:04 BST 2020

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 02:18:47PM +0200, Petite Abeille wrote:

I was more looking into a way for the client to maintain some states (e.g. preferences) on the server:

C: gemini://token@mozz.us/?ua=lightweight -- user-agent store its preferences on the server

S: 30 gemini://token@mozz.us/index.gmi-- redirect to an appropriate resource

C: gemini://token@mozz.us/index.gmi -- lightweight version of the resource

S: 20 text/gemini -- customized as per the user-agent stated preferences

A bit of content negotiation in other words.

I think the entire notion of serving up "lightweight" and "heavyweight"versions of a resource is very un-Gemini, and application and clientauthors are both going to balk at the idea. The whole point is thatthere *are* no heavyweight clients or apps in Geminispace, by design.How do you make a heavy text/gemini document which isn't intrinsicallyheavy by virtue of its content?

Cheers,Solderpunk