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Many popular URL parsing libraries will throw out a trailing "?" if there's no query string after it (whether or not that's "correct" is a different discussion, but implementation trumps specification). So it would be an annoying footgun for gemini software developers to work around. Otherwise I agree, using a bare "?" is the obvious solution.
— https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/2912#issuecomment-161822824
2023-08-29 · 10 days ago
the more practical problem that the empty string is not infrequently a valid response to an input request, so then it can't be used as the value which will elicit a 10 response.
I have never seen anyone do this before, any examples?
@mozz The only example which comes to mind is my own "gemrepl", which wraps an arbitrary line-based program (e.g. ed) for which empty lines could well be meaningful.
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I have never seen anyone do this before, any examples?
Bubble uses an empty query string to reset/clear some values in the Settings, for example the certificate password.
The extra dashes added into the links in preformatted blocks above have now been fixed.
2023-08-30 · 9 days ago
Input indicator — I'm thinking again about something which has come up a few times before, which is how to deal with the annoyance that requesting input on gemini involves two requests -- the first to get a 10 response with a prompt, and the second for the actual input. The first is often not really necessary, and could be eliminated if there were some way to signal to the client that a link will expect user input. That extra request is wasteful and can be genuinely annoying -- I was prompted...