=> 👽 acidus

So... The IANA MIME registry officially defines "+gzip" as a valid mime suffix.

So... gemini capsules could serve a "20 text/gemini+gzip" response for gemtext, it clients could know to gunzip it.

Now the client's request has no way to say it support this, but you could config the server with a super simple rewrite rule so that any .gmi file would use a text/gemini+gzip MIME type if the client requests it with an ".gmi.gz" extension. You could also rewrite the gemtext body on the fly so the same-site .gmi links are also .gmi.gz...

Is compression for Gemini (and specifically Gemtext) necessarily? No. But it woudl be fun to hack it into a client!

2 years ago

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=> 👽 danrl

definitely a fun hack. how would it work for clients knowing gz and servers that don’t? would we see failed requests in the logs and non-gz retries? the favicon 404 clutter all over again (worst case)? there seems to be no way for servers to announce capabilities by design. not that it prohibits us from making changes… (see spartan) · 2 years ago