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playing around rn with SSL while working to implement myself a misfin server, i'm a little confused by the spec tho. a couple things seem to me to indicate that a misfin message is intended to be multi-line, but it also says the message is CRLF-terminated..
am i missing something? like if a message is one line then what does it mean about forwarding timestamp lines, having heading lines etc..
Jul 18 · 5 weeks ago
I assume this means if you want new lines you would only use the LF character rather than CRLF. A bit strange to me, considering gemtext files may use CRLF optionally instead of being required to use only LF. At least the community proposed Misfin (C) spec allows for CRLF in the message, even if many of the folks who use misfin likely won't use CRLF for new lines anyways.
This is one of the issues which Misfin (C) is meant to address. But yeah the idea is you use any line break that’s not CRLF for normal lines in the message
🦎 starling [OP] · Jul 23 at 03:24:
@satch @vi i see, thank you both! i thought it might have something to do with the CRLF vs LF distinction, but i couldn't find anything explicit about it in the misfin B spec or the gemtext spec (thought maybe if it were forgotten, it'd be assumed i do whatever gemini does)
anyone have a link to the misfin (C) spec on hand? i hadn't heard of it. cheers