[ANN] Specification update (v 0.16.0)

[Justin Abrahms]

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On Sun, Nov 14, 2021, at 10:11 AM, Solderpunk wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I have just pushed another set of small updates to the specification.
> 
> In addition to assorted spelling and grammar fixes, and clarifying that 
> keywords MUST, SHOULD etc. should be interpreted against BCP14, there 
> are two substantive changes.
> 
> The first is that the specification is now explicit about what to do in 
> the event that a request including a query component receives a 3x 
> redirect status code in response: the redirect URL should be used as is, 
> and the client should not apply the original request's query to the 
> redirect URL.  If you are the author of a client which *does* modify 
> redirect URLs in this way, you need to change this behaviour in order to 
> be spec compliant.
> 
> The second is that the specification now explicitly forbids the use of 
> Unicode byte order marks (BOMs) in either Gemini requests or Gemini 
> response headers.  If your client or server includes a BOM in these 
> places, you should stop doing that.  There will be a future update 
> dealing with the use of BOMs in Gemini response bodies as well, but the 
> changes I just pushed affect only response headers.
> 
> Chances are very good nobody actually needs to make any changes to code 
> as a result of these updates.
> 
> Cheers,
> Solderpunk
> 
> 
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