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[spec] Client certificate scopes

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Sun Mar 7 16:25:08 GMT 2021

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Adnan Maolood <me at adnano.co> writes:

On Sun Mar 7, 2021 at 3:20 AM EST, Omar Polo wrote:
Wouldn't this cause problems with multi-user capsules? e.g. as a user,
if I used a certificate for gemini://example.com/~user1/cgi/foo I may
don't want that same certificate to be sent to
gemini://example.com/~user2/cgi/bar.
Multi-user capsules would still work. The server would recognize which
user you are by your certificate.

No. The server will execute the CGI scrips happily passing anycertificates you provide. In multi-user capsules, ex.com/~user1 andex.com/~user2 are like completely different hosts in this regard.

Instead of limiting the certificate to certain paths, clients should
allow the user to create multiple certificates per host and switch
between them easily.