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.onion capsules?

almaember almaember at disroot.org

Sat Mar 27 18:45:08 GMT 2021

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On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 10:22:49 -0700Rohan Kumar <seirdy at seirdy.one> wrote:

This is interesting; do you have any more information about this, or

know of any sites that do so already?

I don't think any sites doing this exist. This was merely a theoreticalidea.

I'm not sure this is a good idea, since the decision to use the

hidden service should be made by the user agent rather than the

server IMO. A user on the Tor network might have a reason to visit

the clearnet site.

I'm not exactly sure, what would be their reason to visit the clearnetsite? But I do understand that it should be the client's responsibilityto decide whether it wants the hidden service or not.

I like the .well-known idea, but that'd mean making an additional

request on the client side. Headers remove this need, but relying on

headers for anything besides information necessary to present the

attached document (e.g. mimetype, lang) is probably frowned upon for

good reason.

Perhaps we could add a new response code to Gemini, an optionalredirect of sorts. For example, the client requestsgemini://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 samecontent. The client can then do whatever it feels like doing with it.This would work with .onion redirects, but also simple mirror sites.

That's all I can think of right now.

P.S. I'm sending this again because last time for some reason it didn'tgo to the mailing list (read: I forgot to also send it to the listaddress)

~almaember

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