[tech] Integrity checks for Gemini pages

[Almaember]

On 30/05/2021 10:39, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 09:48:31PM +0200,
>   Almaember <almaember at disroot.org> wrote
>   a message of 26 lines which said:
> 
>> I know that there is no way in Gemini right now to check the integrity of
>> pages. However, it would be nice for this to possible.
>>
>> I think this feature is pretty much required for the protocol to be taken
>> seriously,
> 
> The Web does not have such a feature. Does it mean it is not taken
> seriously?
> 

The web however has a Length header in HTTP. The point isn't to perform 
overly complicated checks, but to be able to somewhat tell if the whole 
file got transferred successfully.

HTML also seems to allow integrity checks sometimes, such as in CSS and 
script tags (IIRC)