Bradley D. Thornton Bradley at NorthTech.US
Fri Feb 19 14:28:40 GMT 2021
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On 2/12/2021 4:09 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Sandra Snan once stated:
Revisiting this issue, I want to clarify what my position was and
is.
Bogan's case is that you don't want to be doing a bunch of
301s&31s from unslashed to slashed all day every day.
I agree with that, and my site was definitely borked (both on
HTTPS and Gemini) for being set up to do just that.
Bogan's solution is that you add slashes to links.
I am not onboard with that solution but have now found another
solution. Instead of 301/31, the unslashed versions will now
serve the text directly.
This is what I intended all along, I just could not figure out
how to do it properly because I am secretly really bad at
computers^W being motivated to hack on server stuff.
In the future I might add 301/31 from slashed to unslashed, since
that's the canonical version. That's a project for another day
though.
Thanks to everyone for their patience with how messed up my
capsule has been.
There's a semantic difference between a URL that ends with a '/'
and one that doesn't. The one that ends with a '/' is semantically
a directory, and to have to add a file per directory to get all
URLs to end with a '/' is, in my opinion, silly. I can see what
you are trying to do---skip the silly ".gmi" or ".gemini" extension
as being part of the URL, but there should be better ways of doing
that that populating a filesystem with a bunch of directories
containing a single file (I may do a proof-of-concept with
extensionless files---no, wait! I alreay have that---the
individual tests under the Gemini Client Torture Test!)
Furthermore, if you follow this link, sans a trailing '/':
gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/UCSD-Pascal-source.zip
you'll get a ZIP file. But, add a trailing '/' to that:
gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/UCSD-Pascal-source.zip/
and see what you get (hint: it's not a ZIP file)
Apologies for not trimming, I just left all of that intact above. HeySean, we've been down this road well over a year ago, 14 September2019 here on the list. Very early on in Gemini development.
You are correct, by why are we revisiting this again? Perhaps just alink to the Subject thread: *URLs in request lines*, would suffice?
I'll make it simple ;) Here it is, from a post of mine, citing you, inthe middle of the thread back when we had less than a dozen servers inGemini space :)
https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2019/000160.html
I hope that helps!
Kindest regards,
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