Almaember almaember at disroot.org
Tue May 18 21:32:09 BST 2021
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Why does page integrity matter? Shouldn't it be obvious to the person
viewing a page that the client didn't download the entire page if the
download failed midway? One would think that text being truncated
mid-sentence would be a fairly obvious indication.
It would be good for crawlers, that don't have human intelligence and can't decide for themselves what would be obvious to us.
I think this feature is pretty much required for the protocol to be
taken seriously, but that's just my opinion
1. Why do you think integrity checks are necessary for Gemini to be
"taken seriously"?
2. Why do you think it's necessary for Gemini to be "taken seriously"?
3. What do you think it means for Gemini to be "taken seriously"?
Taking back what I said, it was stupid.
When I want to download large files over FTP and HTTP (such as ISO
images for GNU/Linux distributions) I can download not only the ISO file
itself, but a checksum file (ideally generated using SHA-3, but SHA-2,
SHA-1, or even MD5 will do in a pinch) that I can use to verify that I
got the file I wanted in its entirety. I don't see why people who want
to share large files can't do the same in Geminispace.
Written above
Cheers,~almaember