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.onion capsules?

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Sun Mar 28 07:46:43 BST 2021

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On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 07:45:08PM +0100, almaember <almaember at disroot.org> wrote a message of 69 lines which said:

Perhaps we could add a new response code to Gemini, an optional
redirect of sorts. For example, the client requests
gemini://capsule-one.com, and the META would look something like this:
gemini://capsule-two.com text/gemini
This would specify an alternative location that serves the same
content.

There is certainly a need for that. HTTP does it with the Alt-Svc:header.

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gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/rfc-mirror/rfc7838.txt RFC 7838 on HTTP Alternative Services
This would work with .onion redirects, but also simple mirror sites.

There is also the canonical link relation.

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gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/rfc-mirror/rfc6596.txt RFC 6596 on the canonical link type

But the problem is how to have these services without addingextensible features, headers and HTTP complexity.