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(A little) Ambiguity in the response header specification

Baschdel baschdel at disroot.org

Tue Jun 30 21:35:08 BST 2020

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Hello […].

Section 3.1 of the Gemini specification says that <STATUS> and <META> are separated by a single space character.

Gemini response headers look like this:

<STATUS><SPACE><META><CR><LF>

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<STATUS> and <META> are separated by a single space character.

The problem is the following:

Most people would read this as an ascii space character, however for some people this also includes a tab characters (and in my opinion they are not wrong)

For this reason I suggest to clarify by adding a line that states that <SPACE> refers to the ascii character 0x20 (because that is used by almost all servers already) (or if we want to allow tabs clearly specify that)

Have a nice Evening!- Baschdel

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