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Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Wed Jun 9 16:24:05 BST 2021
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Andrew Singleton writes:
Did not know about the Mercury clients 9gemini minus crypto = mercury.
Clever. Does make me wonder what an 'Apollo' would look like.
Questions for later.)
The original analogy was that if Gopher was "Mercury" and HTTP was"Apollo", then Gemini was trying to find the sweet spot betweenthem. Later, Solderpunk wrote up a "Mercury" spec as a kind ofargument/what-if, not as something that people should actuallyimplement. It's basically Gemini, but with no TLS, only one-characterresponse codes, and an even-more-simplified Gemtext that only includesplain text and links as line types (no quotes, literals, or lists).
If I were actually going to implement a TLS-terminating Gemini proxy foruse with vintage computers, I'd probably have the client side speakGopher rather than encouraging people to actually implement Mercury.
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