authority's userinfo?

[Petite Abeille]

> On Jun 11, 2020, at 11:02, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote:
> 
> The userinfo approach both survives absolutisation *and* works with a
> perfectly static text/gemini file using relative links.  It's an
> extremely easy and lightweight way to unambiguously track users within
> one server, and unlike guessing based off IP (which is also of course
> unavoidable) it is robust against multiple users sharing an IP at once.
> Of the four approaches outlined above, userinfo clearly has a much
> higher "damage inflicted to effort required" ratio than the others.

Thanks. 

That said, this all hinges on automated redirects, beyond end-user control, all opaque to them. This is the crux of the issue.

If user-agents MUST-SHOULD prompt for decisions as to whether to follow a redirect, this would be all transparent and under user control.

If you truly care about user control and transparency, this is the inflection point.