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This is actually a pretty cool idea (although perhaps badly explained, given the other comments here). Here's how it could work: IPFS ("In some ways, IPFS is s

by pkinsky 11y ago

This is actually a pretty cool idea (although perhaps badly explained, given the other comments here). Here's how it could work: IPFS ("In some ways, IPFS is similar to the Web, but IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository") is a globally distributed hash-addressed versioned filesystem. (see: http://ipfs.io/ http://ipfs.io/) They have a mirror of their homepage hosted on IPFS, here: http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeYYwD4y4DgVVdAzhT7wW5vrvmbKPQj8wcV2pAzjbj886 http://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmeYYwD4y4DgVVdAzhT7wW5vrvmbKPQj... To answer the question: distributed GET and HEAD are absolutely possible.

jgrowl 11y ago
Sorry to be pedantic... I thought their main website actually just proxies to the actual ipfs gateway. Is it technically a mirror?
- pkinsky 11y ago
  I actually don't know. Since it's static HTML and assets and IPFS is still in beta they might host their webpage the old-fashioned way.
  - insanity54 11y ago
    In May I contributed an example to the IPFS documentation. (https://github.com/insanity54/website/commit/64db436e33662f23039f0183c2825e88988b3a23 https://github.com/insanity54/website/commit/64db436e33662f2..., https://github.com/ipfs/examples/pull/5/commits https://github.com/ipfs/examples/pull/5/commits) At that time, the site was served by github pages, but parts of the site, including the examples, were served by IPFS. On IRC, I had heard of plans to migrate the entire site to IPFS once IPNS was ready. EDIT: seems like it's all IPFS now https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/search/?q=github+pages https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/search/?q=github+pages EDIT2: Better link. https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/2015-08-22/?msg=47828655&page=1 https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/2015-08-22/?msg=47828655&pag... (The way the IPFS gateways work is you run them on a machine and bind to port 80 or whatever. Then in your DNS TXT records, you put the hash of the content you want to serve, and the gateway picks up on this and fetches the hash from the network.)
comboy 11y ago
Isn't that more or less how Freenet works?
- derefr 11y ago
  Yep. Freenet is inefficient, though, because it has a bunch of indirection in order to obscure the originator of the inserted documents. You could remove that indirection if you just cared about the content, not about anonymity.
  - ArneBab 11y ago
    If I don’t need anynomity, I would choose the Download mesh from Gnutella. If I do need anonymity, Freenet is a very good choice.

by pkinsky 11y ago

jgrowl 11y ago

Sorry to be pedantic... I thought their main website actually just proxies to the actual ipfs gateway. Is it technically a mirror?

pkinsky 11y ago
I actually don't know. Since it's static HTML and assets and IPFS is still in beta they might host their webpage the old-fashioned way.
- insanity54 11y ago
  In May I contributed an example to the IPFS documentation. (https://github.com/insanity54/website/commit/64db436e33662f23039f0183c2825e88988b3a23 https://github.com/insanity54/website/commit/64db436e33662f2..., https://github.com/ipfs/examples/pull/5/commits https://github.com/ipfs/examples/pull/5/commits) At that time, the site was served by github pages, but parts of the site, including the examples, were served by IPFS. On IRC, I had heard of plans to migrate the entire site to IPFS once IPNS was ready. EDIT: seems like it's all IPFS now https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/search/?q=github+pages https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/search/?q=github+pages EDIT2: Better link. https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/2015-08-22/?msg=47828655&page=1 https://botbot.me/freenode/ipfs/2015-08-22/?msg=47828655&pag... (The way the IPFS gateways work is you run them on a machine and bind to port 80 or whatever. Then in your DNS TXT records, you put the hash of the content you want to serve, and the gateway picks up on this and fetches the hash from the network.)

comboy 11y ago

Isn't that more or less how Freenet works?

derefr 11y ago
Yep. Freenet is inefficient, though, because it has a bunch of indirection in order to obscure the originator of the inserted documents. You could remove that indirection if you just cared about the content, not about anonymity.
- ArneBab 11y ago
  If I don’t need anynomity, I would choose the Download mesh from Gnutella. If I do need anonymity, Freenet is a very good choice.