Illusory latency due to trailing slash redirects

Natalie Pendragon natpen at natpen.net
Sat Jun 27 22:06:00 BST 2020


On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 03:28:17PM -0400, Charles E. Lehner wrote:
> Search engines and link aggregators could also help.
>
> For example, GUS has this entry:
>   gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/servers
> which is a redirect to:
>   gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/servers/

Out of curiosity, do you remember the query that got you that search
result? When I perform the below search, I only seem to be able to
find it with the trailing slash. Your result is surprising to me
because GUS already does reliably follow (or at least I think it does
:) trailing slash redirects and provide the redirected URL in search
results.

```
## "servers AND domain:circumlunar"

=> gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/servers/ gemini.circumlunar.space/servers/ (text/gemini, 2K)
* ...Geminispace is now growing at such a rate that maintaining an exhaustive list of servers by hand is no longer terribly practical or terribly useful. Thus, this list is no longer being...
```


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