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- Alex // nytpu <alex at nytpu.com>
@ Thu, 15 Apr 2021 10:38 -0600
Reply to nervuri <nervuri at disroot.org>
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The problem is that Gemini mandates Server Name Indication (SNI). It lets you
host multiple (sub)domains at one IP address.
If you request gemini://173.230.145.243/index.gmi (flounder.online), how do you
know which subdomain it goes to? flounder.online has like a hundred subdomains,
all of which have an index.gmi, all of which are hosted at the same IP address.
You could say "then it should just default to some specific domain," but then
that's a server issue and the client can't do anything about it since it doesn't
know what the "default" domain is. Also servers are allowed to drop requests
that don't use SNI, so they're under no obligation to support using a raw IP
even though I personally do think it'd be a nice feature to have.
~nytpu
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