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Hey folks, I've found a solution to the great content length dilema that I may have unwisely contributed to, magnet links! magnet:?xs=gemini://gemini.spam.works/mirrors/lainzine/lainzine.org/txt-rel eases/lainzine-1.txt&xl=60132&xt=urn:sha256:9e7b437857cd3939e39e0a1c953f73d a3f9045fb0b878014e9917110f8652afd Cheers, E.
It was thus said that the Great Emery once stated: > Hey folks, > > I've found a solution to the great content length dilema that I may have > unwisely contributed to, magnet links! > > magnet:?xs=gemini://gemini.spam.works/mirrors/lainzine/lainzine.org/txt-r eleases/lainzine-1.txt&xl=60132&xt=urn:sha256:9e7b437857cd3939e39e0a1c953f7 3da3f9045fb0b878014e9917110f8652afd As a concept, this is cool, but in practice, I don't think this will work all that well. I thought I might try to create an alternative index page for my Gemini site (gemini://gemini.conman.org/) with magnet: links, but ... => http://boston.conman.org/ Blog => gopher://gopher.conman.org/1phlog.gopher Phlog => gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston.gemini Gemlog => mailto:sean at conman.org Email => http://www.conman.org/people/spc/ Web Mostly non-gemini links here, and for those, I have no control over the size or the hash, so they would have to remain as is (unless I want to burden my server with retrieving the size/hash of each target, which could lead to stale information in the time between serving you the link and the time it's actually checked). The one gemini link I do control, but it changes size whenever I post, so that link would have to be updated whenever that file changes else I serve up outdated information. => boston.gemini The Boston Diaries Feed => /boston/ The Boston Diaries Archive => boston.atom The Boston Diaries ATOM feed => news.txt News about this server => /gRFC/ Gemini Request For Comments => gemini://gemini.conman.org/sourcecode/ Source Code => https://github.com/spc476/GLV-1.12556 Source Code on Github => /extensions/ Custom Extensions to the Source => /sourcecode/ Alternative Link => /source-code/ Old link Most of these pages are dynamic in nature (although they don't change all that often). So this section will have to be updated as well. I'll spare you the rest of the links, which are more of the same. Each change to the server would require a near complete rebuilding of the site. It's a similar issue to the one I have with gopher, where the file type is part of the URL instead of being associated with the actual content. -spc (That's just my take---if you like it, go ahead with it ... )
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:48:08 -0500 Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote: > As a concept, this is cool, but in practice, I don't think this > will work all that well. I thought I might try to create an > alternative index page for my Gemini site > (gemini://gemini.conman.org/) with magnet: links, but ... Hypothetically, those interested in serving large files over Gemini can write software that generates and parses magnet links for Gemini hosted content without cluttering the protocol with features. Hypothetically...
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