Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!)

[Michael Lazar]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:52 PM Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
>
> It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
> > I was surprised and excited today to spot a (beta) web-to-Gemini
> > portal at https://portal.mozz.us/.
>
>   Pretty cool, but it fails on loading any of the proposed RFCs on my site:
>
>         gemini://gemini.conman.org/gRFC/
>
> I think that's because I send a MIME type of
>
>         text/gemini; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

This has now been fixed. I'm not going to do anything with the "format=flowed"
parameter because it's not in the official spec (yet), but you should now be
able to specify a charset and it will be respected by the proxy.

>   -spc (It also a decent test for parsing URLs---the gateway doesn't do a
>         proper job actually ... )
>

This should also be fixed now, I wasn't handling relative paths properly.

Since there are currently only a handful of actual gemini servers to test
against, it's difficult to discover these types of bugs when writing a client.
It would be helpful if there was a playground or sandbox server that presented
all of the different combinations of URL formats, charsets, response codes, etc.
that are allowed by the Gemini spec. I might take a shot at starting one myself.

- mozz