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Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Fri Oct 30 22:06:42 GMT 2020
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It was thus said that the Great Arav K. once stated:
Hi, Gemini peoples!
I have two main proposals for getting information like content-size
(which, as has been discussed previously, would be very useful for even
slightly big responses).
1. Define specific additional MIME type parameters. For example, one
could return '20 application/gzip; content-size=42069420' as the
response line. This could also be used for giving the client a hash
of the data (parameter name e.g. 'content-hash-sha256'), useful for
verification and for checking against local caches of the same page.
Ah yes ... this is something I proposed back in August of 2019:
gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/0003
Solderpunk has always rejected it when it comes up, mumbling "simplicity"and "not HTTP again" under his breath. Another issue with this is that theserver might not know how big a given response is---think dynamic output(via CGI/SCGI or similar). It would have to be optional in any case.
2. Define an additional endpoint for retrieving meta info.
I also proposed something along these lines in August of 2019:
https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2019/000016.html
Read the thread to see how that turned out.
-spc