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Hi folks, I came across Gemini a couple days ago when I was looking things up in preparation to write a gopher server for practice in a language I'm learning, and decided to crank out a Gemini server instead. I'll probably send an announce for the code and my server tomorrow, but in the meantime... I have a pretty simple question that I wasn't able to find anywhere on the mailing list or elsewhere: Are there equivalents to the forbidden and internal server error status codes in HTTP? Alternatively, what extant status codes would y'all recommend using to indicate those errors? It's mostly for debugging sake, but I found myself wanting a way to say "oops! File permissions are screwed up!" or "oops! I wrote some bad code and there's an unexpected error somewhere". Right now I use 51 for permissions and 59 for a catch all error, but I feel like they're semantically different enough that it irks me to use them. Thanks and look forward to talking with y'all more, --Caranatar -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20200716/98cc 8498/attachment.htm>
It was thus said that the Great Caranatar once stated:
> Hi folks,
Howdy.
> I have a pretty simple question that I wasn't able to find anywhere on the
> mailing list or elsewhere:
>
> Are there equivalents to the forbidden and internal server error status
> codes in HTTP? Alternatively, what extant status codes would y'all
> recommend using to indicate those errors?
It's there, but probably under a different subject line. There's this
message I sent last year:
gemini://gemi.dev/gemini-mailing-list/messages/000107.gmi
It's for running web-based CGI scripts under Gemini [1]. Here's the table I
presented:
HTTP status Gemini status
--------- --------
200-299 20
301 31
300-399 30
403 60
404 51
405 59
400-499 50
500-599 40
000-999 50
> It's mostly for debugging sake, but I found myself wanting a way to say
> "oops! File permissions are screwed up!" or "oops! I wrote some bad code
> and there's an unexpected error somewhere". Right now I use 51 for
> permissions and 59 for a catch all error, but I feel like they're
> semantically different enough that it irks me to use them.
What I do is use the most generic status code I can, and log (via syslog()
but use whatever mechanism works for you) the actual error to prevent
information from leaking out to a Gemini client.
-spc
[1] GLV-1.12556 [2] can run web-based SCGI/CGI scripts, and I had to set
up a mapping of status values.
[2] https://github.com/spc476/GLV-1.12556
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