The Gemini protocol is a lightweight alternative to HTTP positioned as a spiritual successor to Gopher. One drawback is that without reuse of TCP connections, every navigation takes several seconds on geostationary satellite Internet.

Read what curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) thinks of Gemini
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28…

#GeminiProtocol #satellite #Gemini #curl

The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

There is again a pull-request submitted to the curl project to bring support for the Gemini protocol. It seems like a worthwhile effort that I support, even if it is also a lot of work involved and it might take some time before it reaches the state …

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