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[spec] When may clients begin processing responses?

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Tue Nov 23 21:59:26 GMT 2021

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Scot <gmi1 at scotdoyle.com> writes:

On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:57:43 +0100

Omar Polo <op at omarpolo.com> wrote:

Scot <gmi1 at scotdoyle.com> writes:

Hi all,

The transaction sequence in section 1.1 seems to read chronologically,

which would mean clients are not permitted to handle any of the

response until the server closes the connection.

I don't know how every gemini client handle this, but IMHO the clearest

way to do so is just streamingly parsing the output as soon as it

arrives. If you don't get a close_notify at the end you can just as

well delete the page and render an error if you want.

(also, you won't be able to handle streaming pages if you wait for the

server to close the connection)

Agreed. A nice side effect (imo) of specifying that clients are

permitted to start handling requests right away is that the

streaming use case is included.

Exactly! :D