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[tech] Plaintext Gemini extension

Björn Wärmedal bjorn.warmedal at gmail.com

Wed Mar 10 08:53:55 GMT 2021

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On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 at 09:18, Artur Honzawa <arturh at gmail.com> wrote:

It probably has been proposed before, but this is how I could see it working:
Serve rot13 encoded stream in port 1964 as fallback for clients without TLS support.
Add gemini-plaintext: schema for servers without TLS support.
Low implementation burden overall, old hardware support. Thoughts?

All current gemini servers and clients support TLS, and the presenceof encryption is a cornerstone of gemini. If you don't want it you canuse gopher instead :)

Supporting old hardware is a noble goal, but I'd say that's betterachieved by building a proxy service somewhere that serves geminicapsules over http.

Cheers,ew0k