Intercept URLs for JS libs at public CDNs

ipfs / ipfs-companion

Browser extension that simplifies access to IPFS resources on the web

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Intercept URLs for JS libs at public CDNs #674

Open lidel opened 5 years ago

lidel commented 5 years ago

Extracted from https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/issues/570#issuecomment-421811923

Summary

Intercept URLs from public CDNs like unpkg.com and load them from IPFS.

Detection

Two ways:

Seamless: work with CDN operators to expose assets on IPFS paths /ipfs/<cid>/**/*.min.js
Grunt: identify the most popular assets across free CDNs, create a JSON mapping between filename/URL and CID and ship it with ipfs-companion as additional hint for creating redirects.

Additional Resources

prior art
- Mirroring Web to IPFS
- Decentraleyes

Mikaela commented 5 years ago

Will this conflict with Decentraleyes or is the plan to deprecate Decentraleyes? If it is, will there be automagic pinning of the newest versions of the libraries?

lidel commented 5 years ago

Good question. Decentraleyes is limited by the size of assets they can bundle with extension before it gets too big (resources/ directory).

Companion could improve on that by bundling only a small mapping file (but with much better coverage) and fetching the data from IPFS + pin/preload the most popular ones.

autonome commented 4 years ago

Decentraleyes fork using IPFS:

https://www.reddit.com//r/ipfs/comments/hu7bij/a_fork_of_a_fork_of_the_web_extension/

Mikaela commented 4 years ago

GitHub repo link to the Decentraleyes fork: https://github.com/IPFS-Forced-Adoption/IPFS-CDN

I will be following it with interest