Gemini clients Amfora – Gemini client – Screenshot Due to the simplicity of the protocol and served media type, various Gemini browsers were implemented. The following non-exhaustive list of clients highlights their diversity. Further lists are available online:gemini://kwiecien.us/gemlog/gemini-client-review.gmigemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~sario528/projects/clientlist.gmi Critique It has been regarded as a positive thing that people are thinking about alternatives to the "increasingly out-of-control Web". Gemini is weird, small, and different; it is driven by the wish "that it could not easily be URL "[U]ltimately the geminiverse is lovely because it is underpopulated, slower-paced, and URL As some passages of documents on Gemini may sound like a manifesto, Gemini space might be "off-putting to those who want to explore a technology." A "tendency toward neo-Luddism may cause one to lean toward Gemini. None of that is meant to be pejorative, as it can certainly be self-applied; in truth, Gemini seems like something rather fun to mess with when time permits . "  concludes J. Edge in LWN.net. A discussion of adding the Gemini protocol to curl mentioned the downside of closing the TLS-connection with each request. The non-existence of a certificate chain was seen as bad habit , although Gemini's security model is explicitly based on Trust On First Use rather than the Certificate Authority/Web of Trust approach commonly used with SSL/TLS. See also Gopher (protocol) HTTP, HTTPS Timeline of hypertext technology
Gemini clients Amfora – Gemini client Due to the simplicity of the protocol and served media type, various Gemini browsers were implemented. The following non-exhaustive list of clients highlights their diversity. Further lists are available online:gemini://kwiecien.us/gemlog/gemini-client-review.gmigemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~sario528/projects/clientlist.gmi Critique It has been regarded as a positive thing that people are thinking about alternatives to the "increasingly out-of-control Web". Gemini is weird, small, and different; it is driven by the wish "that it could not easily be URL "[U]ltimately the geminiverse is lovely because it is underpopulated, slower-paced, and URL As some passages of documents on Gemini may sound like a manifesto, Gemini space might be "off-putting to those who want to explore a technology." A "tendency toward neo-Luddism may cause one to lean toward Gemini. None of that is meant to be pejorative, as it can certainly be self-applied; in truth, Gemini seems like something rather fun to mess with when time permits " , concludes J. Edge in LWN.net. A discussion of adding the Gemini protocol to curl mentioned the downside of closing the TLS connection with each request. The non-existence of a certificate chain was seen as problematic , although Gemini's security model is explicitly based on Trust On First Use rather than the Certificate Authority/Web of Trust approach commonly used with SSL/TLS. See also Timeline of hypertext technology
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Gopher (protocol) HTTP, HTTPS