Gemini Digest, Vol 23, Issue 40

[Omar Polo]

Jonathan McHugh <indieterminacy@libre.brussels> writes:

> Is there a (dictionary) repo covering sites which operate for both Gemini
> and HTML?

I don't think it's worth the effort to keep a directory of sites that
are available on both Gemini and the Web.  It's hard to keep it
up-to-date, to inform geminauts about it and more importantly it's not
like a Gemini capsule and a website on the same will have the same
content.  Furthermore, there are people (like me) that have the web site
and the gemini capsule on different subdomains (www and gemini
respectively).

(it hurts to speak about HTTP on a gemini mailing list)

What could be done is use a HTTP header to inform the web browser that
that site is available also over Gemini.  This way, the effort wouldn't
be on a bunch of people running a directory, but rather on the server
administrator.  Something like a `Gemini-location: <url>'.  From my
understanding it's something that the tor project is doing:

	% curl --head https://www.torproject.org | grep -i location
	Onion-Location: http://2gzyxa5ihm7nsggfxnu52rck2vv4rvmdlkiu3zzui5du4xyclen53wid.onion/index.html

> If so, it would be great for browsers to then be whipped into visiting/providing
> the Gemini one each time a URI is considered. 
>
>
> PJ vM <pjvm742@disroot.org> writes:
>
>> On 23/06/2021 22:28, Luke Emmet wrote:
>>> On 23-Jun-2021 12:38, charliebrownau wrote:
>>>> Can Duckling Proxy work with OpenNIC to avoid using mainstream web
>>> 
>>> My understanding is that OpenNIC is just an alternative DNS provider,
>>> so it should be transparent to applications once configured.
>> Exactly. You can set it up so that your system's default DNS provider is
>> OpenNIC, and then everything should use it automatically. The program
>> dnscrypt-proxy might be of help with this.
>>
>> I don't know if there are any Gemini capsules on one of the OpenNIC
>> TLDs...? It would be cool if there are.