File size issues

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Sun Aug 18 22:47:29 BST 2019
It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
> 
> Yeah, I think we can leave this for now.  It was a hypothetical concern
> that somebody had.  Not necessarily a bad one, but until it's observed
> actually creating significant trouble for actual users on actual clients
> I think we can just table this issue.  If it does come up as a practical
> concern, we can resume discussion of some of the ideas here.

  I had a thought last night in that there does, in fact, exist a way to
include the information without changing the syntax of the protocol.  The
MIME type that is returned can have parameters, and these parameters can act
as small headers, so:

20 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; size=1345
20 text/gemini; size=2003; modified=2019-08-18T17:15-05:00

  -spc


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