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Almaember almaember at disroot.org
Tue May 18 20:48:31 BST 2021
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Hello, everybody!
I know that there is no way in Gemini right now to check the integrity of pages. However, it would be nice for this to possible.
I think this feature is pretty much required for the protocol to be taken seriously, but that's just my opinion
Of course, it would be the best to do this in a way that doesn't break existing implementations. My ideas are:
a) A file in the same directory as the downloaded file, but with .integrity added at the end,containing a hash as "<algorithm>:<hash-in-hex>".This is definitely compatible with all existing clients, but it breaks a lot of the conventions of Gemini, such as the one-file-per-page rule.
b) Add a new MIME-type parameter, let's call it "integrity" again, that contains the has in the same format as option a.
It's possible that this would be pointless, so if it is let me know. This is just an idea to, for example, allow the downloading of larger files properly.
Cheers,~almaember