[spec] What to do of fragments when there is a redirection

[Luke Emmet]

On 24-Dec-2020 14:52, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> The question that remains particularly, is what should be the
>> semantics of the fragment for our most prevalent media type -
>> text/gemini?
> It is an interesting question but unrelated to the subject of this
> thread.
Fair point, if this thread is only about the protocol aspects, not their 
application to text/gemini.

But it is still something to be sorted out if we will use them in gemini 
content.

>> Then again, do we really have much of a need to do page-specific
>> indexing for URLs? Most Gemini pages are quite simple and not too
>> complicated. So maybe we just get by without the fragment?
> Note there is a standard for fragments on plain text: RFC 5147
> <gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/rfc-mirror/rfc5147.txt>.
>
Yes that might be useful for plain text, but gemini is not plain text, 
it is text/gemini. Similarly HTML is not plain text, rather text/html, 
and it specifies a semantics for how the fragments are identified within 
the html content via <a name, or id attributes.

We could consider using RFC5147 for any content served as text/plain.

  - Luke