"Wide load" status code(s)?

[solderpunk]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 06:36:05AM -0400, Natalie Pendragon wrote:
 
> What I feel less excited about is the specification of a hard-coded
> $THRESHOLD. It feels like a magic number that's not going to fit all
> situations well - adding three of them like you brought up at the end
> improves the situation, but nevertheless still feels like a magic
> number solution. And depending on how future-proof you want these
> $THRESHOLDs to be, no matter how good the magic numbers are today, as
> years pass and internet access/quality across the world changes, for
> better or worse, the magic numbers will become more and more out of
> date.

Hmm.  I'll admit I didn't think about this at all, so good job flagging
it!  That said, I'm not sure this is a problem for us.  Gemini's lack
of caching, lack of compression, and lack of resumable downloads all
mean it's *never* going to be sensible choice for really big downloads,
no matter how fast internet speeds get.  I don't see a future where
Gemini clients wanting to choose between thresholds of 100MiB, 1GiB and
10GiB are sensible.

Cheers,
Solderpunk