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[tech] A '.well-known/' path for contact information?

Jon jon at shit.cx

Thu Jan 7 21:10:33 GMT 2021

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On 07/01/21 11:03, Côme Chilliet wrote:

There is an email field in the certificate for this, I don’t know
about other authors, but I put my email in the email field of
certificates for my capsules. This does not work for multi-user
domains, but as the rest of the thread shows, the *.txt solution does
not easily support them either.

That's something I hadn't considered. Can you change the email addresswithout invalidating your TOFU cert? If not, then changing contactdetails will be difficult.

I also wanted to note that authors expecting comments by email using a
specific subject syntax can just use a mailto link at the end of the
article, and I’ve seen several gemlogs already doing this. Example:
gemini://ybad.name/log/2021-01-02.gmi (this one even use a mailing
list for commenting it seems)

That is something else I hadn't considered. But without formal way toreliably scrape the contact details from a page, things aren't anybetter than present. But that formality is certainly another approachthat could be taken. I remember a discussion how to know how the contentis licensed. One idea was a way to set key/value pairs that containsthis information. I'll try to dig up the thread. A solution for bothproblems would be helpful.

Thank you for your ideas.

-- Jon