gateway-registry VS ipns-link

We have decided to implement, in near future, an optional SSL/TLS passthrough mode at least for the registered public gateways. HTTPS requests made using this mode, cannot be inspected by the gateways, making the Browser to Origin route end-to-end encrypted.

This is our ofiicial public gateway registry. You shall find all public IPNS-Link-Gateways we know of here.

I saw this project, IPNS-Link, that seems promising, but I wasn't able to make it work yet and seems to require specialised IPNS-Link gateways, they can't use just any IPFS gateway, and their freely available gateways seem to be all down rn, so I'd probably have to host my own gateway anyways.

You might wanna take a look at ipns-link.

Install and run a free and open-source app on your local server (the Pi in your case), following this easy tutorial.

We welcome you to implement the IPNS-Link project, especially the Gateway, in a proper server-side language - be it Go, JS, Rust, Ruby, Python - whatever you are good at. The existing prototype, in the spirit of playful experimentation, has been rather hurriedly hacked in Bash 🙈. Thankfully, it works! But of course, we need to evolve.

Loading an ipns-link-exposed website for the first time might take a while. This is because the Gateway has to locate your site and peer with its host node. Subsequent requests for the site, however, are served faster because the Gateway maintains persistent peering with the site's host node.

Here's an overview and a quick-start tutorial. And here's a prototype gateway.

The static blue background is missing. This might happen due to the following. The background is embedded in the html and sourced from a root-relative URL. Now, being a path-gateway, ipns-link.herokuapp.com requires the Referer header (with absolute URL) in the http request, so that it can resolve the PeerID when requested a relative path without the /ipns/PeerID prefix. Although the Gateway wants a complete referrer URL, the embedded tags may override it with a different ReferrerPolicy. If overridden in this way, the Gateway can't resolve the PeerID and fails. NOTE: this problem WILL GO AWAY once the IPNS-Link-GATEWAY supports wildcard subdomains, hopefully in the near future. Then, there wouldn't be any dependence on the Referer or cookie or server-side cache for resolving root-relative URLs, and everything would work as intended. Subdomain Gateway has always been the end-goal, but due to the lack of a domain I went with a path-gateway for prototyping.