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[Petite Abeille]

> On Jun 11, 2020, at 19:19, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote:
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> What's the motivation for this in text/gemini?

Mostly the link line, which contains an URL. If limiting overall line length is a nuisance, perhaps just applying the 1024 limit to the URL itself would do.

In term of the spec, this could be stated as ANY URLs, be it in the request, response, or links, MUST be 1024  bytes long at most.

Similar to HTML's LITLEN limit, which is 1024 in some contexts - as pointed out by Sean a while back.

This would positively constrain the reach of all those marvelous URL schemes you don't approve of, while not eliminating their experimental use altogether :D