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Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Mon Feb 22 01:49:48 GMT 2021
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It was thus said that the Great Oliver Simmons once stated:
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 at 13:13, Solene Rapenne <solene at perso.pw> wrote:
It seems your are suggesting implementing equivalent of http headers
that are key: values pair and are not part of the document but is transmitted
in the reply. Currently gemini only returns the status code, the content type
and potentially the language (this is not mandatory).
That's an endless rabbithole that the Gemini protocol should better
not explore because it allows endless extendability.
This isn't headers of any sort, it's document metadata, similar to
HTML's <head> and <meta>.
One can go overboard on metadata. Check out the source on this joker'swebsite:
http://boston.conman.org/2021/02/17.1
Almost a *hundred* lines of metadata! Madness! Madness I say!
-spc (and he's not even sure he has enough! The fool!)