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a space case for transparent gemtext compression

Almaember almaember at disroot.org

Thu Jun 17 14:47:48 BST 2021

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On 17/06/2021 14:24, Francis Siefken wrote:

How would people solve such use cases elegantly and within the design
philosophy?

In my personal opinion, the best solution would be to simply have it as a separate MIME-type, something along the lines of "text/gemini+gzip". I don't recall how this works with MIME-types, but it should be something like this.

I do support your idea, though. I think compression would be a nice addition, but it doesn't belong in the protocol itself, but the file format.

Cheers,~almaember

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