Proposed minor spec changes, for comment.

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Tue May 19 03:28:10 BST 2020


It was thus said that the Great Sean Conner once stated:

>   But if by "proxy" you mean you connect to gemini.conman.org and expect the
> request itself to be proxied:
> 
> 		gemini://mozz.us/journal/2020-05-06.gmi
> 
> that ... could be done, but it would require two things---1) your client
> would have to know to use the gemini.conman.org certificate to connect to my
> server and 2) my server would have to know to proxy this domain (and
> supporting that type of proxy in GLV-1.12556 would require some
> thought---the server isn't set up for that type of thing [1]).

  I just thought of a way it could be done---I could have a copy of the
certificate/key pair for the domain I'm proxying for.  Then it would be easy
to write a handler to forward the request to the original domain and return
the contents.

  -spc

> [1]	Nor does it support multiple domains with a single certificate/key
> 	pair.  Right now, each server requires its own certificate/key file.


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