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A Writeable Gemini

skyjake skyjake at dengine.net

Thu Nov 11 13:50:47 GMT 2021

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On 11. Nov 21, at 9.17, Balázs Botond <balazsbotond at gmail.com> wrote:

Btw, what was the motivation to limit input length to 1024 bytes in
the first place? I can't find anything about it in either the FAQ or
the specification.

Here's a relevant post from the archives where Solderpunk comments on the limit: https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/001672.html

IMO, uploading content via URL query strings is not a great idea because you must percent-encode all of it, and that can increase the size quite a bit. Better to use alternate methods to upload a "raw" octet stream.

--jaakko