"Wide load" status code(s)?

[Felix Queißner]

Heya!

> This feels like a good idea to me.  It's totally optional and very easy
> to handle on both the client and server sides, and I feel like being
> friendly to small/slow computers and slow/intermittent network
> connections is a good fit with the overall "vibe" of Gemini, provided
> doing so does not conflict with overall simplicity.
Yes, i totally like that idea!

> Naturally, deciding to do this will lead immediately to a weeks-long
> heated debate on what the appropriate value of $THRESHOLD should be.  We
> *could* wade into those waters, but I'll just also throw out that we
> could use 21, 22 and 23 to indicate payloads exceeding 1MiB, 10MiB or
> 100MiB respectively and leave it at that.  Clients targetting
> resource-limited environments could let their users configure their own
> threshold for early termination of downloads.
I had the exact same thoughts, and i think the idea of "wasting" 3
status codes for 1, 10 and 100 MB are totally okay. It allows clients to
better display a loading indication

Regards
- xq