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  • "HTTP is not simple"

    From Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova@cyber@sysrq.in to comp.infosystems.gemini on Thu Aug 21 22:53:38 2025
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    Daniel Stenberg, the main developer of cURL, published a great blog
    article where he tells from his experience why HTTP is not a simple
    protocol.
    https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/08/http-is-not-simple/
    This is a nice addition to "Why not just use a subset of HTTP and
    HTML?" section of the Gemini FAQ.
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  • From Jimmy Logan@punk.book8853@fastmail.com to comp.infosystems.gemini on Tue Sep 2 05:29:42 2025
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    On 2025-08-21, Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova <cyber@sysrq.in> wrote:
    Daniel Stenberg, the main developer of cURL, published a great blog
    article where he tells from his experience why HTTP is not a simple
    protocol.
    https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/08/http-is-not-simple/

    This is a nice addition to "Why not just use a subset of HTTP and
    HTML?" section of the Gemini FAQ.

    hmmm fascinating inded.
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  • From John McCue@jmclnx@SPAMisBADgmail.com to comp.infosystems.gemini on Tue Sep 2 15:51:02 2025
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    Jimmy Logan <punk.book8853@fastmail.com> wrote:
    On 2025-08-21, Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova <cyber@sysrq.in> wrote:
    <snip>
    This is a nice addition to "Why not just use a subset of HTTP and
    HTML?" section of the Gemini FAQ.

    hmmm fascinating inded.

    quote from Daniel Stenberg i
    August 11, 2025 at 14:30
    @William: gemini is NOT well defined, which is why the
    spec is so small. I have blogged about this already?

    I remember reading that blog, so I went looking and here it is:

    https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28/the-gemini-protocol-seen-by-this-http-client-person/
    --
    [t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
    - Paraphrasing Star Wars
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  • From Alex // nytpu@nytpu@example.invalid to comp.infosystems.gemini on Tue Sep 2 11:19:20 2025
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    On 9/2/25 9:51 AM, John McCue wrote:
    Jimmy Logan <punk.book8853@fastmail.com> wrote:
    ...
    quote from Daniel Stenberg i
    August 11, 2025 at 14:30
    @William: gemini is NOT well defined, which is why the
    spec is so small. I have blogged about this already?

    I remember reading that blog, so I went looking and here it is:

    https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28/the-gemini-protocol-seen-by-this-http-client-person/


    I wrote a long response about that post of his lol: gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2023-06-04 (or
    https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2023-06-04 or
    gopher://nytpu.com/0/gemlog/2023-06-04)

    I also had a good discussion in a Fediverse thread about it and he
    seemed to understand the decisions a little bit more.

    ~nytpu
    --
    Alex // nytpu
    https://nytpu.com/ - gemini://nytpu.com/ - gopher://nytpu.com/
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