[Tech] A broken server in the wild, tearing down connection when the resource does not exist?

[Jacob Stewart]

I've noticed station.martinrue.com doesn't seem to implement the spec correctly (to my knowledge).
I experimented with using a TLS client (gnutls-cli) to send messages over the protocol manually and Station replied weirdly to requests.
It responds to 'gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/' with '20 text/gemini' and then the home page. Shouldn't that be something like '53 We are not a proxy'?
It responds to 'http://njw.name/' with '59 Client scheme is non-gemini'. Shouldn't that also be 53?


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27 Sept 2021, 12:00 by gemini-request at lists.orbitalfox.eu:

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> From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org>
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> Subject: [Tech] A broken server in the wild, tearing down connection
>  when the resource does not exist?
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> It seems there is a specific brand of server that immediately resets
> the connection when you ask a non-existing file (such as robots.txt)
> instead of replying with 51.
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> You can find it for instance at fulton.software, blog.snowfrost.garden
> or cee64.us.
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> Any idea what it is?
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> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:21:44 +0500
> From: Anna ?CyberTailor? <cyber at sysrq.in>
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> You can identify gemini servers by their error messages (try getting
> "59 BAD REQUEST" or "53 PROXY REQUEST REFUSED")
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> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 11:39:03 +0200
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