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From: Davinci <brometeo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gemini
Subject: Re: Gemini protocol mime type
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:57:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-03-27, Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:
> Davinci <brometeo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Do you know it it is possible to define a mime type for gemini
>> protocol, using an specific tool for showing gemini links? How it
>> should be done?
>
> MIME types apply to content, not protocols. The gemini protocol can be
> used to serve multiple MIME types (including e.g. image/jpeg and
> audio/mp3).

I suspected that, but thank you for your explication.

> Does that help?

I'd like to use different applications for opening gemini or http protocols
with generic xdg-open, using mime types. But, as you say, it seems not
possible, so I am sad and small again :)

-- 
David