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John Cowan cowan at ccil.org

Mon Feb 15 15:43:32 GMT 2021

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On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:23 AM Thomas Frohwein <tfrohwein at fastmail.com>wrote:

clients MUST NOT automatically make any network connections as part of
displaying links whose scheme corresponds to a network protocol
adding the rest of that paragraph:
[...] (e.g. links beginning with gemini://, gopher://, https://, ftp://
, etc.).
This reads to me as though automatically displaying links _without_ a
network
protol (e.g. gemini://, gopher://, https://, etc.) would be okay. That
sounds
like it applies to relative links pointing to a resource on the same domain
with the same protocol.

I don't think so, though the wording is ambiguous. I take it to refer toboth explicit and implicit schemes, but to allow automatic fetching offile: links, about: links, and others that don't involve the Internet.

John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.orgObjective consideration of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusionthat optimum or inadequate performance in the trend of competitiveactivities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity,but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably betaken into account. --Ecclesiastes 9:11, Orwell/Brown version-------------- next part --------------An HTML attachment was scrubbed...URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20210215/5674bbbd/attachment.htm>