Should Gemini clients alert users upon redirect?

[Sandra Snan]

That might be me.

I am already aware of Bogan's case, I read it back in 2002.
I find the arguments for slashless more convincing than the arguments against.

Please just change that setting in the client.

Thank you♥



mailinglists at ngalt.com writes:

> Background reading:
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> => https://alistapart.com/article/slashforward/
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> In the above article, Dan Bogan makes a case for adding slashes to the end of all URLs.† I thought it was convincing, so that's how I've been rolling for years.
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> One of my current favorite Gemini clients, by default, alerts the user when following a link and gives the user an option to continue or abort the navigation.
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> One of the capsules I visit from both CAPCOM and Spacewalk has links that are all trailing-slashless. Not only are the links in CAPCOM/Spacewalk slashless, but the intra-capsule links are as well.
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> Should I be sending a polite change request to the author of the capsule, to the maintainer of the Gemini client, to both, or neither? At least with the Gemini client, I could send along a patch to change the default.
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> † Time and CMS changes have not been good to the article. You'll need to hover over the links in the code snippets and look at your link-preview bar/popup to see what he's talking about.