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a space case for transparent gemtext compression

remyabel at tilde.team remyabel at tilde.team

Fri Jun 18 04:36:29 BST 2021

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On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 08:20:08PM -0700, Rohan Kumar wrote:

Only after this gains traction and is well-received by users with
constrained bandwidth should consider adding a "MAY" statement to the Gemini
spec describing the text/gemini+gzip MIME type. Compression support should
never be required.

I thought the spec was finalized and not designed to be extended. I cansee clients treating gzip files specially though, no different thanlagrange supporting mp3s.