Difference between gopher and gemini?

[Michael Lazar]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 3:47 PM <yosuu at tutanota.com> wrote:
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> What is the difference between gopher and gemini, what makes gemini
better per say?

Off the top of my head...

* Actual, usable error codes (gopher's "3" is useless)
* A hypertext document that you can edit by hand
* A semantic document structure (headers, quotes, bullets, etc.)
* SUPPORT FOR MOBILE SCREEN SIZES
* Response mimetypes (no guessing what "binary" means)
* Response encodings (no guessing between UTF-8 and Latin-1)
* A reliable end-of-transmission marker (gopher's "." is useless)
* First class URL link support (no hURL hacks)
* A standard URL structure (most people parse gopher URLs wrong)
* Support for virtual hosting
* Mandated TLS encryption
* Support for sessions via client certificates
* Support for server redirects

- Michael (I love gopher by the way)
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