"Wide load" status code(s)?

[solderpunk]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 05:15:38PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
 
> I'd suggest warning for 1MB because I doubt that most text content
> served on Gemini protocol would exceed 100KB per file, and because
> section 3.3 of the spec explicitly states that servers are not supposed
> to compress content before sending it down the pipe.

Just to be clear: servers can use MIME types like application/gzip or
application/zip to serve compressed content if they want to.  There's
just no way to do what HTTP allows, to send compressed data while
specifying both the compression *and* the underlying media type.

Cheers,
Solderpunk