Intercept any ipfs-ish HTTP links and requests

ipfs / in-web-browsers

Tracking the endeavor towards getting web browsers to natively support IPFS and content-addressing

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Open ghost opened 7 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

Relevant previous discussions

https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/104 -- the gateless gate （無門関）
RFC 6249 -- Metalink/HTTP: Mirrors and Hashes
https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/239 -- ipfs-download.js - a tool to make "IPFS Download" links try their best
ipfs/in-web-browsers#44 -- Signal IPFS hashes in HTTP headers

lidel commented 6 years ago

This seems to be mostly delivered in the latest version of ipfs-companion: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-companion/issues/16#issuecomment-336641844

lidel commented 6 years ago

There is a handy is-ipfs library for detecting IPFS contexts.

Detection of cidv1b32 in subdomains landed recently: