Gemini – A new, collaboratively designed internet protocol

Re:Gemini – A new, collaboratively designed internet protocol by spc476 on Friday May 01, 2020 @07:24PM (#23047534)

With respect to the status codes, the original spec was worse (single digit response codes) than what exists now. I didn't agree with the original spec, so when I wrote my own Gemini server [1][2] I reused codes from HTTP. It was only after a drawn out discussion between myself and the original designer that a compromise was struck and we ended up with two digit response codes (and redirects---those weren't in the original spec either).

[1] https://github.com/spc476/GLV-1.12556

[2] It was the first Gemini server to be written.

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Re:Gemini – A new, collaboratively designed internet protocol by brabel on Saturday May 02, 2020 @04:12AM (#23050244)

I still don't see why Gemini couldn't use a small subset of HTTP itself. HTTP is really great, just a little too complicated with all the extra RFC adding stuff to it (cookies, CORS)... if you ignore all that and remove a few of the fancy things in HTTP/1.1 (as defined in RFC-7230), like content-negotiation, you get pretty much what Gemini wants, no?

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