Difference between gopher and gemini?

Michael Lazar lazar.michael22 at gmail.com

Sun Jul 11 20:14:57 BST 2021

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On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 3:47 PM <yosuu at tutanota.com> wrote:

What is the difference between gopher and gemini, what makes geminibetter per say?

Off the top of my head...

Actual, usable error codes (gopher's "3" is useless)* A hypertext document that you can edit by hand* A semantic document structure (headers, quotes, bullets, etc.)* SUPPORT FOR MOBILE SCREEN SIZES* Response mimetypes (no guessing what "binary" means)* Response encodings (no guessing between UTF-8 and Latin-1)* A reliable end-of-transmission marker (gopher's "." is useless)* First class URL link support (no hURL hacks)* A standard URL structure (most people parse gopher URLs wrong)* Support for virtual hosting* Mandated TLS encryption* Support for sessions via client certificates* Support for server redirects

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