Catching other URLS - Githubissues

mitra42 commented 6 years ago

Now that we've done this, we can intercept other dweb style URLs.

I'm not sure what the rules are, can we for example intercept any or all of: dweb: ipfs: magnet:*

abhidas17695 commented 6 years ago

We could catch all such URLs with the code url.startsWith('dweb') || url.startsWith('ipfs') || url.startsWith('magnet') Did you have this in mind ?

mitra42 commented 6 years ago

Great - no change is required yet, I need to figure out what I want to do with them first.

mitra42 commented 6 years ago

At the Dweb summit I spoke to people from IPFS, Mozilla and GUN to come to some agreement on how to better support URIs across platforms. The draft of my documentation is at [https://github.com/mitra42/dweb-universal/blob/master/naming.md] .

The next step for dweb-ext would be I believe to:

recognize the patterns described in that document.
Canonicalize them to /proto/internal for example /ipfs/Q1234/a/b/c this should be a function in Domain.js so it can be used more widely than in dweb-ext
Pass the canonicalized name to Domain.resolve (via rootResolve or resolveAndBoot )
Add leaf records to Domain._setupOnce for /gun and /ipfs and /magnet, this should be straightforward but might require hacking leaf records as it may extend what they were intended for.
Possibly add a hard-coded set of top level Domains under the root to speed things up.

I'm happy to chat about this to clear up any questions, note that I'm on Australia (Sydney) time currently which is 4.5 hours ahead of India.

abhidas17695 commented 6 years ago

I'l check out the document today. Will you be available on Slack ?

mitra42 commented 6 years ago

Yes - but only for an hour or so, it might be better tomorrow whenever you are available.

mitra42 commented 6 years ago

Note that when complete we can tackle #39

abhidas17695 commented 6 years ago

I'l check out #39

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