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Where is this portal "https://skynet.moe" for? #255

Open parajbs opened 2 years ago

parajbs commented 2 years ago

Hello David Vorick and developers,

I have a question: You use the portal "https://skynet.moe" in the code here. I tested the portal in the browser and saw that not all skylinks can be called up.

Only a skylink with a jpg file worked. https://skynet.moe/CADd2MjdgMbxOW4-5zJRo_SRr5nZyTLZh_LzEM-sIo8TIw

Now the question which content types can all be called up?

errors: Content type "text/html" not allowed. Content type "application/pdf" not allowed. Content type "application/zip" not allowed. Content type "audio/mpeg" not allowed. Content type "audio/wav" not allowed.

Where is this portal "https://skynet.moe" for???

What does this sentence mean? This service serves user-generated content from the Sia Skynet network (https://skynetlabs.com/about). The concept is very similar to an IPFS gateway (https://docs.ipfs.tech/concepts/ipfs-gateway/).

pcfreak30 commented 2 years ago

The portal is operated by @redsolver and runs on fly.io. It is intended for small files only and acts as a proxy. Since the kernel tries multiple portals, the fact that it fails on large files does not matter.

redsolver commented 2 years ago

Yep, the portal is very new. It has a very restricted list of allowed content types right now, to prevent the domain being blocked for phishing for example. Large files are not blocked, if their content type is allowed a redirect to siasky.net is returned. skynet.moe also uses an additional CDN layer to make the delivery of small allowed files as fast as possible.

redsolver commented 2 years ago

I will likely add more allowed content types in the future, for example audio.