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Re: "The Nightfall Express ()"
This is cute. I don't think the point was to make The Next Big Smol Protocol so much as to just make something for fun out of the love of the smolnet.
2023-07-08 · 1 year ago
🌲 sloum · 2023-09-14 at 05:48:
@clseibold The spec, at least when I saw it, allowed for selectors (the path component of a URL) to contain any characters (without URL encoding). That is what I had meant by gopher style selectors in my prior comments. It is an incompatible URL format with gemini style link lines (which has been an occasional problem when linking to gopher content from gemini).
The Nightfall Express (nex://) — New solnet protocol with a very neat and minimal design. I like the approach of just inferring the response type from the filename extension or trailing slash. Keeps it simple. nex uses hard-wrapped lines for directories (like gopher) which gives more opportunity for creative page styling using ascii art and center text alignment and such. The recommended line width is 60-characters, which is too large for...