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Discussion of the Spartan protocol, clients, and sites.

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Mime Type — I added Spartan support to Alhena. Just when I thought I was done, I was testing some links in the ufo section at mozz.us. For text files with a non-text extension, the server sends "application/octet-stream" as the mime type. Alhena sees that and treats those as binary, presenting a download dialog. Lagrange either ignores the mime type or, more likely, determines the file is text anyway and displays the contents. Any thoughts on how to handle this scenario? In my mind, how it's...

💬 6 comments · 2025-03-23 · 1 year ago

🐙 norayr

folks, i want to tell my students who already implemented spartan for downloads, to also implement uploads. but how do i test it? should i enable some spartan server and configure it somehow? is there a public spartan server they can test their programs with?

💬 4 comments · 2025-03-20 · 1 year ago

🚀 asdf

How to handle uploaded data? — So I've been writing a Spartan server, and I've realised I actually have no idea what to do with data that gets uploaded to it. I myself don't need a Spartan server that data can be uploaded to, but if someone else wants to use it and they need to allow data to be uploaded so people can log in, make comments, or something else, how would the server handle that? I guess maybe send it to some other software, but how would that work? How would someone tell it to send...

💬 4 comments · 2025-02-18 · 1 year ago

🚀 asdf

— Spartan spec

4 Invalid request — So I read the Spartan spec and it says: "A spartan request is a single ASCII-encoded request line followed by an optional data block. [preformatted] If I open a tcp connection to mozz.us:300 with nc and send "mozz.us / 0", it does respond with a text/gemini document. But I noticed something; if I open a tcp connection to gmi.noulin.net:300 and send "gmi.noulin.net / 0", it responds with the title of this post. But...

💬 2 comments · 2025-01-27 · 1 year ago

🚀 asdf

spsrv IPv6? — Anyone know if spsrv supports IPv6?

💬 1 comment · 2025-01-26 · 1 year ago

🖥️ zetamacs [mod]

rc-spartand, a Spartan server for Plan 9

💬 1 like · 2024-01-10 · 2 years ago

🍀 gritty

— Gritty's Spartan Server (it's rather Spartan right now)

I fired up a Spartan server, because, whynot?

💬 8 comments · 4 likes · 2024-01-03 · 2 years ago

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