Is streaming a normative protocol expectation? (was Re: Documents with mixed languages)

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On December 13, 2021 9:38:04 PM UTC, Luke Emmet <luke@marmaladefoo.com> wrote:
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>On 13-Dec-2021 20:55, Krixano wrote:
>> that portion of text no longer even being present in the latest version of the spec on gitlab: https://gitlab.com/gemini-specification/protocol/-/blob/master/specification.gmi
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>Thanks for the link to the updated protocol, I was just going on the 
>version on the gemini home capsule as the official version.
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>Clearly whatever solderpunk puts in is what the spec is. And there is 
>less said now in the current draft of the spec about the expected 
>interleaving of client and server events. This leaves more room for 
>servers to expect clients to process the data before it is completed.
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>Still it seems unclear to me how a client can now tell between a faulty 
>or excessively slow server and one that is valid but is streaming 
>content very slowly. In the previous draft the expectation was the 
>client waits for content, which will conclude, then it is processed. Now 
>clients don't get to have a general expectation that the content will 
>conclude or not as it comes down the pipe.
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>Probably the best option is to try to guess whether the content might be 
>a stream from the media type as spc suggests, although that seems like 
>guesswork to me.
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>Anyway, clients and servers probably need to have a connection timeout 
>to prevent tar pits.
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>regards
>
>  - Luke

afaik the canonical spec lives on gemini.circumlunar.space not gitlab