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The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

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Re: The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

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> If you bothered writing a spec, it might as well be unambiguous, no? Sure, people want unambiguous specs. However there is a list of literally dozens of working clients, servers, and libraries that were implemented based on the Gemini spec as is. Perhaps Daniels concerns are, in practice, not as important? https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini#clients I would also point out the hell that is the HTTP/1.0 and HTT…

Stating that it's easy to develop clients and servers for Gemini is fine. But it's not how curl works. IF a feature is to be accepted, it will have to be maintained for a long time. In fact, it would not surprise me that curl's eventual implementation will be regarded as a sort of reference, simply because curl is such a well-regarded project. So it's really important to get this right. And the spec is the only reali…

Can you provide a link to that ban threat story?

Re: The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

#112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Stating that it's easy to develop clients and servers for Gemini is fine. But it's not how curl works. IF a feature is to be accepted, it will have to be maintained for a long time. In fact, it would not surprise me that curl's eventual implementation will be regarded as a sort of reference, simply because curl is such a well-regarded project. So it's really important to get this right. And the spec is the only reali…

Can you provide a link to that ban threat story?

https://github.com/makew0rld/amfora/issues/199
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