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Announcing jan.bio & ncgopher gemini support

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG

Sun May 17 10:13:32 BST 2020

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Howdy,

Both your server and client are now on the appropriate lists, thanks for sharing!It's nice to see another combined Gopher/Gemini client on the list.

I think the fact that Gemini documents can straightforwardly link out tocontent on other protocols without resorting to hacks is one of itsnicer improvements over Gopher.  Clients which support both protocolsmake it easier to take full advantage of that.

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 07:49:47PM +0200, Jan Schreiber wrote: 
> One of the issues that has come up with other clients is that they block
> on binary downloads. ncgopher downloads files in background, indicating
> the number of bytes read (a bit like lynx). This way, you can continue browsing
> while downloading your favourite konpeito mix.

Hey, that's outstanding, good work!  I have always hoped that betterclient design could be a solution to that problem, rather than addingcontent length information into the response header.

Cheers,Solderpunk