Caching and sizes, the explosion of responise codes (was Re: Caching and status codes)

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Sun Nov 8 05:50:18 GMT 2020


It was thus said that the Great khuxkm at tilde.team once stated:
> 
> This can't happen, though, because the first proposal breaks the
> compatibility of <META> in response codes within a block, and the second
> one is just debating which of the codes we should add.

  This *did* happen, back on November 3rd.  

	https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/003015.html

  And it's already received over a hundred hits.

> Cache/no-cache would be 2 (at most) response codes. That's all.

  And my argument, even with the size response code removed, can *still*
lead to a combinatoric explosion of response codes.  Today it's just *two*,
but what about tomorrow?

  -spc




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