Clarification of current spec

[solderpunk]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 01:45:39AM -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
 
>   The one that doesn't is the server at gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/,
> run by solderpunk, creator of the Gemini protocol

Creator and increasingly negligent parent, it would sadly seem!

> The spec is ... not
> detailed enough (for my liking) to resolve this.

I am happy to refine the spec to make this explicit (the "spec-spec"
document is still the definitive and up-to-date specification.  It
hasn't changed in a while, true, but that's because the basic parts are
pretty well hammered out now, and thank goodness for that!).

Since the link syntax already explicitly supports both spaces and tabs,
IMHO it would be confusing and an invitation to implementation errors to
explicitly define the response header as only supporting one or the
other.  So, my vote would to be to clarify the spec by allowing both.

I am happy to listen to counter arguments.  In most languages I work
with regularly, splitting on space-or-tab is no more difficult than
splitting on one or the other, so I don't think of it as annoying to
permit both alternatives, but if there are other drawbacks, do speak up!

Excited to hear that Gemini-support is coming to Bombadillo! :)

-Solderpunk