Should Gemini clients alert users upon redirect?

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great Sandra Snan once stated:
> Revisiting this issue, I want to clarify what my position was and is.
> 
> Bogan's case is that you don't want to be doing a bunch of 301s&31s from
> unslashed to slashed all day every day.
> 
> I agree with that, and my site was definitely borked (both on HTTPS and
> Gemini) for being set up to do just that.
> 
> Bogan's solution is that you add slashes to links.
> 
> I am not onboard with that solution but have now found another solution.
> Instead of 301/31, the unslashed versions will now serve the text
> directly.
> 
> This is what I intended all along, I just could not figure out how to do
> it properly because I am secretly really bad at computers^W being
> motivated to hack on server stuff.
> 
> In the future I might add 301/31 from slashed to unslashed, since that's
> the canonical version. That's a project for another day though.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for their patience with how messed up my capsule has
> been.

  There's a semantic difference between a URL that ends with a '/' and one
that doesn't.  The one that ends with a '/' is semantically a directory, and
to have to add a file per directory to get all URLs to end with a '/' is, in
my opinion, silly.  I can see what you are trying to do---skip the silly
".gmi" or ".gemini" extension as being part of the URL, but there should be
better ways of doing that that populating a filesystem with a bunch of
directories containing a single file (I may do a proof-of-concept with
extensionless files---no, wait!  I alreay have that---the individual tests
under the Gemini Client Torture Test!)

  Furthermore, if you follow this link, sans a trailing '/':

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

you'll get a ZIP file.  But, add a trailing '/' to that:

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

and see what you get (hint:  it's not a ZIP file)

  -spc