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@@ -14,20 +14,21 @@ A few helper programs are shipped as part of gmid: - `titan` is a command-line titan client. -## Internationalisation (IRIs, UNICODE, punycode, all that stuff) +## Internationalisation (IRIs, IDN, UNICODE) Even thought the current Gemini specification doesn't mention anything -in this regard, I do think these are important things and so I tried -to implement them in the most user-friendly way I could think of. +in this regard, I think it's important to make as easy as possible to +use non-ASCII characters in domain names and URL paths. -For starters, gmid has full support for IRI (RFC3987 — -Internationalized Resource Identifiers). IRIs are a superset of URIs, -so there aren't incompatibilities with URI-only clients. +For starters, gmid has full support for IRIs (RFC3987 — +Internationalized Resource Identifiers). IRIs are a superset of URIs +that allow UNICODE characters, so there aren't incompatibilities with +URI-only clients. -There is full support also for punycode. In theory, the user doesn't -even need to know that punycode is a thing. The hostname in the -configuration file can (and must be) in the decoded form (e.g. `naïve` -and not `xn--nave-6pa`), gmid will do the rest. +There is full support also for IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names). +There's no need to fiddle with punycode, or even know what it is: the +hostname in the configuration file can (and must be) in the decoded +form (e.g. `naïve` and not `xn--nave-6pa`), gmid will do the rest. The only missing piece is UNICODE normalisation of the IRI path: gmid doesn't do that (yet). @@ -100,13 +101,6 @@ To install execute: # make install -Please keep in mind that the master branch, from time to time, may be -accidentally broken on some platforms. gmid is developed primarily on -OpenBSD/amd64 and commits on the master branch don't get always tested -in other OSes. Before tagging a release however, a comprehensive -testing on various platform is done to ensure that everything is -working as intended. - ### Testing @@ -129,9 +123,6 @@ to the `contrib` directory. ## Architecture/Security considerations -The internal architecture was revisited for the 2.0 release. For -earlier releases, please refer to previous revision of this file. - gmid has a privsep design, where the operations done by the daemon are splitted into multiple processes: @@ -142,7 +133,7 @@ splitted into multiple processes: - logger: handles the logging with syslog and/or local files. - - server: listens for connections and serves the request. It also + - server: listens for connections and handles the requests. It also speaks FastCGI and do the proxying. - crypto: holds the TLS private keys to avoid a compromised `server` |