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Re: "I saw a comment by @clseibold earlier (hope I spelled that..."
Yes you are correct about the history @clseibold.
This reminds me I should use the "/?register" solution myself in Bubble, because having an actual "Create Account" UI action beats the current "just activate a certificate but please only at the root".
Dec 06 · 3 weeks ago
@clseibold @skyjake This history shows how much "wiggle room" the spec has, allowing clients to behave very differently from each other, until clients and servers achieve some status quo not mandated by the spec. I know that my client (and probably many others) doesn't support "chat" because it previews the document during download but shows the prompt that allows you to navigate to a link only when transfer is finished.
🚀 clseibold · Dec 07 at 17:35:
@dimkr I agree that the spec has quite a bit of wiggle room. However, I think the situation with where certs are activated is just an oversight in the spec. One could fix this by just saying under the client certs sections that "A server can only expect a client cert to be activated under the path in which the client cert request status code was sent" or something along those lines.
Lots of clients don't support streaming gemtext in general because it was marked optional. I think the best solution for this is to just go with Solderpunk's idea written in the article I linked ("A vision for Gemini applications") - I can create a chat terminal program specifically for AuraGem Live Chat.
I saw a comment by @clseibold earlier (hope I spelled that right) talking about streaming audio capabilities in mobile Gemini clients. I can't seem to find the post anymore, but it got me thinking about whether Opal (the client library that Rosy Crow uses to do it's Gemini stuff) can support that. [https link] Currently it does not support that, because the entire response is read all at once into a buffer. Thinking about this a while, I of course arrived at the classic conclusion that...