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[tech] Integrity checks for Gemini pages

Almaember almaember at disroot.org

Sun May 30 12:38:54 BST 2021

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On 30/05/2021 10:39, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:48:31PM +0200,
Almaember <almaember at disroot.org> wrote
a message of 26 lines which said:
I know that there is no way in Gemini right now to check the integrity of
pages. However, it would be nice for this to possible.
I think this feature is pretty much required for the protocol to be taken
seriously,
The Web does not have such a feature. Does it mean it is not taken
seriously?

The web however has a Length header in HTTP. The point isn't to perform overly complicated checks, but to be able to somewhat tell if the whole file got transferred successfully.

HTML also seems to allow integrity checks sometimes, such as in CSS and script tags (IIRC)