=> Midnight Pub

Posting/replying via gemini

=> ~orchard

Bartender, masala chai for me.

I was wondering, why do we have to rely on http for posting things here? Is there no way we could post things from gemini itself? A 2FA maybe, that could be implemented to authenticate users without compromising the passwords themselves? What do you think?

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=> ~ew wrote:

This is a test from emacs/eww.

=> ~ew wrote (thread):

There is a script described in the manual

=> https://midnight.pub/manual

I tried, but I did not get it to work. The gemini protocol itself is not well suited for posting. The titan protocol would be better in that respect. But I'm in no position to help other than to mention pointers.

=> gemini://transjovian.org/titan | gemini://capsule.usebox.net/gemlog/20210924-next-for-spacebeans-titan-support.gmi

=> ~lufte wrote:

I guess it's a decission of the pub owners. Gemini provides status code 10 for requesting the user's input, and status codes 6X for dealing with client certificates which can be used for authentication. A few details still remain, like a somewhat short limit of characters for the comment (1024 bytes for the whole URL) and CSRF (which I think can be solved with CSRF tokens in the URL), but it's definitely possible.