ipfs/ipfs-companion
Automatic mirroring of HTTP websites to IPFS as you browse them
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#535 ouverte le 19 juil. 2018
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Description
By design IPFS provides excellent caching and accelerating mechanism. It would be nice to use IPFS as HTTP accelerator. Obviously, it might be used for static files only.
My proposal is as follows:
- Create secure hash storing website "IPFS2HTTP". It would store URL, IPFS hash, expiration time. 1.1 Have api to get URL and return IPFS hash, expiration time 1.2 Have "workers" to retrieve unknown or expired URLs, add it to IPFS and keep hash in internal db.
- Add to ipfs-companion option to enable "http2ipfs" translation, in following way: 2.1 For each never-seen-before URL do this (with 5s timeout): 2.1.1 Go to the "IPFS2HTTP" site, pass the URL, see if it has hash for the URL. Get the hash, fetch it over IPFS, return to user. Fall back to HTTP if no such hash. 2.2. If URL already seen - check its time to live (as received from IPFS2HTTP site) and use IPFS hash if possible. Otherwise retrieve new hash as in 2.1.1
Initially we might use the acceleration for obviously static files, such as .iso, .mp3, images...
I volunteer to do the part 1. Can you help with 2? What do you think?