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[solderpunk]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 02:18:47PM +0200, Petite Abeille wrote:

> I was more looking into a way for the client to maintain some states (e.g. preferences) on the server:
> 
> C: gemini://token@mozz.us/?ua=lightweight -- user-agent store its preferences on the server
> S: 30 gemini://token@mozz.us/index.gmi-- redirect to an appropriate resource
> C: gemini://token@mozz.us/index.gmi -- lightweight version of the resource
> S: 20 text/gemini -- customized as per the user-agent stated preferences
> 
> A bit of content negotiation in other words.

I think the entire notion of serving up "lightweight" and "heavyweight"
versions of a resource is very un-Gemini, and application and client
authors are both going to balk at the idea.  The whole point is that
there *are* no heavyweight clients or apps in Geminispace, by design.
How do you make a heavy text/gemini document which isn't intrinsically
heavy by virtue of its content?

Cheers,
Solderpunk