[Ann] An online arithmetic calculator for Gemini

Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com
Sat Jun 6 23:28:31 BST 2020


On 06-Jun-2020 23:16, Sean Conner wrote:
> <snip>
>    That did not work.  What did work?
>
>          "gemini://gemini.marmaladefoo.com/cgi-bin/calc.cgi?3 * 2 + 1"
>
> That is, when I *did not* encode the query [1], it worked.
>> Is your client url escaping the request?
>    Define "url escaping the request".  Because a query like "3 * 2 + 1" needs
> to be esscpaed to "3%20*%202%20+%201"---it can also be escaped as
> "%33%20%2A%20%32%20%2B%20%31".  It's that escaped string that is sent to the
> server.
>
>    -spc
>
> [1]     I have a *very* basic Gemini client that sends verbatim what I tell
>          it to send.
Thanks for the feedback.

I'll investigate further and try to get to the bottom of this...

  - Luke


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