[tech] Integrity checks for Gemini pages

[Almaember]

> Why does page integrity matter? Shouldn't it be obvious to the person viewing a page that the client didn't download the entire page if the download failed midway? One would think that text being truncated mid-sentence would be a fairly obvious indication.

It would be good for crawlers, that don't have human intelligence and can't decide for themselves what would be obvious to us.

>> I think this feature is pretty much required for the protocol to be taken seriously, but that's just my opinion
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> 1. Why do you think integrity checks are necessary for Gemini to be "taken seriously"?
> 2. Why do you think it's necessary for Gemini to be "taken seriously"?
> 3. What do you think it means for Gemini to be "taken seriously"?

Taking back what I said, it was stupid.

> When I want to download large files over FTP and HTTP (such as ISO images for GNU/Linux distributions) I can download not only the ISO file itself, but a checksum file (ideally generated using SHA-3, but SHA-2, SHA-1, or even MD5 will do in a pinch) that I can use to verify that I got the file I wanted in its entirety. I don't see why people who want to share large files can't do the same in Geminispace.

Written above

Cheers,
~almaember