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[spec] What to do of fragments when there is a redirection

Gary Johnson lambdatronic at disroot.org

Tue Jan 5 18:53:26 GMT 2021

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Solderpunk <solderpunk at posteo.net> writes:

Should redirect URLs be allowed to contain queries?

If an original URL has a query in it but the client gets back a redirect

URL without a query, should the original query be appended?

That's a fair question. One of the recommendations you made for serverauthors was that we should redirect any URLs that don't end with a / totheir equivalent paths with / appended.

Thus a URL like gemini://mycapsule.org/foo?somequeryshould redirect to gemini://mycapsule.org/foo/?somequeryin order for the client to be able to correctly resolve any relativeURLs in links within the returned gemtext document (assuming this URLresponds with gemtext).

This is what I currently do in Space Age. If we were to mandate droppingthe query string, I suspect we would end up with some very brokendynamic pages in Geminispace.

YMMV, Gary

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