ANN: go-hg — Mercury Protocol client & server library for Go programming language

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Mon Nov 1 22:59:03 GMT 2021
It was thus said that the Great Charles Iliya Krempeaux once stated:
> Regarding:
>  gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/gemini/status-codes.txt
> 
> > A good example of this latter problem, IMHO, is "410 Gone" (which is
> > actually in the Conman Gemini server!).  If this is made official in the
> > Gemini spec, it sends the message that Real Servers which have a Proper
> > Full Implementation should remember every one of their URLs which *has*
> > been valid in the past so it can respond to requests for them with 410
> > instead of 404.  Similarly a Real Client should remember every 410 it gets
> > so that it doesn't request them again.  In the real world, almost nobody
> > does this with HTTP, so it's basically dead weight in the spec.
> >
> 
> And yet:
> https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.html
> 
> 52 GONE
> 
> I'm assuming there is some story about how this got in there.

  Yes.  I convinced solderpunk to add it.  Along with both temporary and
permanent redirections.  

  -spc



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