Everything touching the network or the card is a job on the Gemini
task (a missing card can block 5 s, past the main loop's watchdog):
about:start is composed from /gemini/bookmarks.gmi and the Saved Pages
(by capsule, newest first); file:// opens a Saved Page; s, S, r, d, b
and downloads report one line to the URL bar, S with progress Toasts.
A Saved Page is the cached body with a first line "> Saved from <url>
on <date>": it shows as a quote and gives relative links their base;
inside one, links to other Saved Pages open the saved copy, others go
online or say "Not saved, and offline". Input prompts (11 masked)
request the same URL with the answer as its query.
Fixed on the way: re-wrapping indented lines rebuilt the text from its
rows, inserting a space where a long word had been cut; refreshing
loaded the whole Saved Page next to a TLS connection (heap down to 436
bytes), now it reads one line and every fetch checks the 55 KB floor.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT
GeminiService fetches on a short-lived task and hands the App a
GeminiPage: header, the body as lines in 4 KB chunks (TextBuffer: no
large block, no doubling copies), the final URL after up to 5
redirects. Certificates are pinned on first use per host and port; a
change comes back as its own outcome with both fingerprints. No fetch
starts below 55 KB free (Q86).
With a card, the body streams to /gemini/cache/page.gmi in 1 KB pieces
while the connection is open, then loads into RAM once its memory is
back (Q87); StorageService::runAndWait (moved from the Debug Console)
keeps every card access on the storage task. Without a card: RAM, with
the steady and transient floors.
Measured with IRC connected: Cosmos (31.6 KB) went from 4.6 KB to the
whole page on the card and 20 KB on screen; lowest free heap 19.5 KB
in transfer, 43 KB once loaded. `gemini get` and `gemini trust` on the
console. 14 Gemini tests.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT
`gemini get <url>` fetches on a short-lived task (a handshake would trip
the main loop's watchdog; an idle client should cost no stack) and
reports the header, size, certificate fingerprint and heap. First page:
geminiprotocol.net, 20 text/gemini, 1,184 bytes in 0.7-1.1 s.
With IRC connected over TLS, a fetch dips to about 24 KB free during its
handshake, about 36-40 KB after it; nothing leaks. Antenna is down, so
the default aggregator becomes Cosmos.
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