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Re: [spec] mercury highlights ☿️

Phil Leblanc philanc at gmail.com

Sun Feb 28 20:04:34 GMT 2021

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On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 3:40 PM Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> wrote:

That subset was always good enough for my needs, and that's what I have been using since — instead of Gemini proper.

+1

What follows is my implementation highlights of Mercury — for the record.(...)
REQUEST 4,096 bytes UTF-8 IRI line

Yes. Bumping the request max size may allow e.g. very simple updateschemes. I think this could also apply to the gemini protocol=

https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/002045.html
MERCURI URN
urn:mercury:capa
CAPA REQUEST
urn:mercury:capa
CAPA RESPONSE
20 text/mercury;charset=utf-8;
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urn:mercury:capa
<end of connection>
Servers MUST support urn:mercury:capa.

Why this specific requirement? I didn't find any reference to"urn:*:capa". What does it mean and what would be the returned values?

Phil