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From: Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net>
Subject: Re: Textual Web
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:16:27 -0500
Message-ID: <87tufuubkk.fsf@cassilda.carcosa.net>
rtr <rtr@nospam.invalid> writes:
I don't understand, why would we want to have an even stripped down
version of gemini? It seems to me that gemini strikes a good balance
between gopher and http.
Some people want Gemini without TLS because they use (or want to keep
open the option of using) devices that are either too old to support TLS
(i.e., 8- or 16-bit micros ) or which are locked down and old enough
that they will never be updated to support TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3
(i.e. many Android 4.4 or earlier devices). My personal recommendation
for these devices is just to use Gopher, but even without TLS, Gemini
does provide some useful features over Gopher (virtual hosts, MIME types
in responses), which explains why some people still want it.
--
Jason McBrayer | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,
jmcbray@carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies,
| but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”
| ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow
Parent:
Re: Textual Web (by rtr <rtr@nospam.invalid> on Sun, 28 Nov 2021 06:42:30 +0800)
Start of thread:
Textual Web (by David Arch <david@tilde.institute> on Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:32:16 -0000 (UTC))
Children:
Re: Textual Web (by news@zzo38computer.org.invalid on Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:34:08 -0800)
Re: Textual Web (by Stephane Tougard <stephane@unices.org> on Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:18:30 +0100)