URL/META length

[Phil Leblanc]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 9:33 PM solderpunk <solderpunk at sdf.org> wrote:

> > > Can we solve a lot of these issues by bumping up our maximum URL length?
>
> I'm still open to something like this.  And for the record, I still
> think the idea of "uploading by hosting" and passing the URL used for
> that in response to a status code 10 is too beautiful not to explore, if
> we really, really need to be able to upload in band.

A longer URL doesn't prevent at all exploring / implementing  the
uploading by hosting approach. It only addresses some use cases where
the existing input mechanism can be used as-is (e.g. comments, small
document updates).

I think it could also be useful for simple gemini applications,
typically the applications "by me, for me" you describe here
=>gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/solderpunk/cornedbeef/a-vision-for-gemini-applications.gmi

It is _not_ a modification in any way of the Gemini protocol - Just a
different size limit.

Phil