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Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Mon Nov 1 05:27:12 GMT 2021
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It was thus said that the Great Charles Iliya Krempeaux once stated:
Hello everyone,
Hello.
For me I prefer to separate out the TLS part from the server part. So, this
implementation isn't an attempt to get rid of encryption, but instead a way
of dividing up the technology to make it easier to work with.
I was originally doing this in a Gemini Protocol Go implementation, and
calling the TLS-free version "naked Gemini". But when I started reading the
mailing list archive, and some of the gemlogs — still working through them
— and noticed Mercury was the same thing, I created Go package hg.
The Mercury protocol:
https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/gemlog/the-mercury-protocol.gmi
was (at the time solderpunk proposed it) a thought experiement and isactually bit less than the current Gemini-TLS---it's more akin to theoriginal protocol he propsed with single digit status codes [1] and a verysimple native text format. The critical part of the Mercury "spec":
3. ... then a lot of distinctions made by the remaining codes (e.g. temporary vs permanent redirects or failures) become far less important, so we can get rid of more codes and end up below 10, allowing them to be single digits.
4. The 'charset' parameter from the text/gemini MIME type is removed and UTF-8 encoding is obligatory. The 'lang' parameter currently under discussion for Gemini is not added.
5. The text/gemini syntax is stripped back to just two line types: links, and plain text. Plain text lines are still wrapped by the client, as they currently are in Gemini.
As for the requirement for TLS for Gemini, solderpunk explained his ideasin this post:
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/why-gopher-needs-crypto.txt
In fact, a lot of the early history of Gemini is documented here:
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/1/~solderpunk/gemini
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[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/gemini/status-codes.txt