Clarification of current spec

[Bradley D. Thornton]

On 9/18/2019 7:33 PM, Brian Evans wrote:

> 
> While building all of this out I have been using existing servers for testing. It seems that there is a good
> amount of variation, particularly concerning tabs and spaces. 
> 
> I am wanting clarity on whether this is correct:
> <two digit status number><space><meta>
> 
> or this is correct:
> <two digit status number><tab><meta>
> 
> The same question applies to gemini docs. My understanding was that this is correct:
> 
> <magic string><url><space><...text>
> 
> However, I am seeing tab instead of space in the wild.
> 
> Is this just a simple matter of different servers conforming to different stages of the development spec?
> Should my client support both? It is certainly doable, but a little annoying.


You may be seeing a lot of variation on my servers as I switch between
<space> and <tab> for my own redability. According to the document you
reference below, the standard calls for white space being either tabs or
spaces. i.e.,:

<snip>

1.3.5.2 Link syntax

Link lines have the following format:

=>[<whitespace>]<URL>[<whitespace><USER-FRIENDLY LINK NAME>]<CR><LF>

where:

* <whitespace> is any non-zero number of consecutive spaces or
  tabs


</snip>

> 
> Lastly, is the spec as written at:  gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/gemini/spec-spec.txt

I hope that helps :)

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