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[tech] Integrity checks for Gemini pages

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Sun May 30 12:51:37 BST 2021

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On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 01:38:54PM +0200, Almaember <almaember at disroot.org> wrote a message of 21 lines which said:

The web however has a Length header in HTTP. The point isn't to perform
overly complicated checks, but to be able to somewhat tell if the whole file
got transferred successfully.

Since Gemini requires TLS, the proper solution is to require anexplicit TLS close<https://gitlab.com/gemini-specification/protocol/-/issues/2>.