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Proposal about content-size and hash

Ali Fardan raiz at stellarbound.space

Tue Nov 3 15:42:19 GMT 2020

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On Tue, 03 Nov 2020 15:33:31 +0000khuxkm at tilde.team wrote:

I think this is an apples to oranges comparison; 5.5.2 has to do with
the text/gemini media type, which, while it is a part of the spec,
isn't protocol based (i.e; I could serve text/gemini on a web server
if I really wanted to)

I'm referring to this in the context of the spec, not the protocolitself.

Just for the sake of it, I really want to try and make a remote shell
in Gemini CGI, just to prove a point. You can do it already, with the
protocol as-is; send the command as a query to a CGI endpoint

Great, that'd be a creative way to make use of the limitations of aprotocol instead of suggesting adding more.

Okay, but with all due respect, what does that have to do with
content size? CGI isn't going to help the fact that the protocol
currently has no way to indicate "this is how big the response will
be" or "this is the hash of the file". Those questions, at least in
my opinion, need to be answered at the protocol level, unless we're
going to make a .well-known for Gemini.

With all due respect, EOF should be an indicator.