Genini requests with ncat

[James Henderson]

Hi there,

I am trying to make gemini requests with ncat and have hit a bit of a stumbling block that I am not sure how to solve so was wondering if anyone here knew what was going on.

If i make a request as such:

echo -e “gemini://gemini.conman.org\r\n” | ncat —ssl “gemini.conman.org” >page.out

I get the expected index page from gemini.conman.org printed into a file.

However if i try the same with

echo -e “gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space\r\n” | ncat —ssl “gemini.circumlunar.space” >page.out

I get a 31 redirect. If i try that redirect address which is the same but with a / on the end of the url then the requests fails Where in would expect the gemini.circumlunar.space home page to be output to a file.

I feel like there is something obvious I am missing.

Anyone done this and know whats wrong?
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