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From: Stephane Tougard <stephane@unices.org>
Subject: Re: Textual Web
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:18:30 +0100
Message-ID: <6vrh7i-it8.ln1@clipper.unices.org>
On 2021-11-29, Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net> wrote:
Some people want Gemini without TLS because they use (or want to keep
open the option of using) devices that are either too old to support TLS
(i.e., 8- or 16-bit micros ) or which are locked down and old enough
that they will never be updated to support TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3
(i.e. many Android 4.4 or earlier devices). My personal recommendation
for these devices is just to use Gopher, but even without TLS, Gemini
does provide some useful features over Gopher (virtual hosts, MIME types
in responses), which explains why some people still want it.
Of course TLS should not be enforced for devices who can not support
TLS.
Keep it simple stupid.
Parent:
Re: Textual Web (by Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net> on Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:16:27 -0500)
Start of thread:
Textual Web (by David Arch <david@tilde.institute> on Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:32:16 -0000 (UTC))