[ANN] Public HTTP Proxy at gem.ondollo.com

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Mon Jan 25 02:23:10 GMT 2021
It was thus said that the Great Mansfield once stated:
> All,
> 
> Hopefully the first of several announcements this week:
> 
> We would like to share a public HTTP proxy for Gemini Space.
> 
> Please find it at https://gem.ondollo.com/
> 
> We've worked hard to make the HTML/CSS clean and small.
> 
> Enjoy!

  Okay, I ran it through the Client Torture Test.  You had possible problems
with tests 34 through 38 where the first digit was defined, but not the
second digit (you treated them all as errors).  In my mind, to future proof
the client, just treat any unknown second digit as '0' (so 29 is 20, 39 is
30, etc).  But hey, another unpainted bikeshed here!

  Also, your client doesn't handle the following link properly:

	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/UCSD-Pascal-source.zip/

It strips off the final '/', which does The Wrong Thing in this case (yes,
the final '/' is significant).  Speaking of which, you don't handle MIME
types properly---the page through your proxy tried printing the resulting
ZIP file as text.  I have a few other pages that return non "text/*" MIME
files.

  It also sends a client certificate.  Unexpected, but something I think
people should be aware of.

  -spc



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