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Should Gemini clients alert users upon redirect?

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Wed Feb 17 09:16:47 GMT 2021

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On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:52:47PM -0500, Michael Lazar <lazar.michael22 at gmail.com> wrote a message of 33 lines which said:

gemini://example.com and gemini://example.com/ are canonically the
same resource and should always return the same response.

Are you sure?

RFC 3986, section 6.2.3 says "In general, a URI that uses the genericsyntax for authority with an empty path should be normalized to a pathof "/"." Note the "in general". The rest of section 6.2.3 explainsthat is is scheme-specific.

<gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi

seemssilent about "gemini:" rules. 1.2 says "The path, query and fragmentcomponents are allowed and have no special meanings beyond thosedefined by the generic syntax."

(The Lupa crawler currently normalizes <gemini://example.com> to<gemini://example.com/> but I wonder if I'm right.)