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- So I want to download a file over IPFS today, how do I go about it? What sort of client do I use? - Now I want to view a whole web page. Is that possible? -

by roel_v 11y ago

- So I want to download a file over IPFS today, how do I go about it? What sort of client do I use? - Now I want to view a whole web page. Is that possible? - Let's say I have a site that I want to publish through this, along with a bunch of files (images, downloads). I'm serving that site now through Apache. Do I need to 're-publish' each file (using the command in the article) every time a file on there changes? Or is there some automated way to have a distributed version of the latest version of my site? I mean, it's fine and dandy that people can store cached copies, but what I want is that if there's an update to my software, that people actually get the latest version when they click 'download', not that they get an old version because some dude somewhere made a mistake at one point 'hosting' a static version of my site and not updating, and visitors just happening to use that version because that dude is closer to them (in network topology terms) than I am.

crypt0x 11y ago
1) you either use one of the public, legacy http gateways and dial https://ipfs.io/ipfs/$myContentHash(/andDepending/maybe/SomePath.png) https://ipfs.io/ipfs/$myContentHash(/andDepending/maybe/Some... or you use the go implementation which is available for download at https://ipfs.io https://ipfs.io as a compiled binary. You can use it like a unix command line tool to add and get files but you can also run it in daemon mode. It then also opens a HTTP server locally which allows you to use the same URLs as above just with http://localhost:8080 http://localhost:8080 as the schema and host. 2) You can use the ipfs cli tool to add a directory with your sites html and other static content. The client will then give the the root content hash. Then you open /ipfs/$rootHash/index.html or /site2.html and voila! :) Btw, this article is serving from ipfs. Try 'ipfs get QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5bgFYiZ1' and take a look in that directory on your harddrive. Also: when you now run 'ipfs daemon' your node will help with requests for this content. 3) To update content with a static name, you can use IPNS, it's also mentioned in the article. IIRC: To resolve those entries (and get the latest ipfs content hash) the node with the corresponding key for the ipns entry needs to be online. If it isn't, you get an error like 'Path Resolve error: could not resolve name.'. Maybe come to the #ipfs irc channel on freenode for more specific questions.

by roel_v 11y ago

crypt0x 11y ago

1) you either use one of the public, legacy http gateways and dial https://ipfs.io/ipfs/$myContentHash(/andDepending/maybe/SomePath.png) https://ipfs.io/ipfs/$myContentHash(/andDepending/maybe/Some... or you use the go implementation which is available for download at https://ipfs.io https://ipfs.io as a compiled binary. You can use it like a unix command line tool to add and get files but you can also run it in daemon mode. It then also opens a HTTP server locally which allows you to use the same URLs as above just with http://localhost:8080 http://localhost:8080 as the schema and host. 2) You can use the ipfs cli tool to add a directory with your sites html and other static content. The client will then give the the root content hash. Then you open /ipfs/$rootHash/index.html or /site2.html and voila! :) Btw, this article is serving from ipfs. Try 'ipfs get QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5bgFYiZ1' and take a look in that directory on your harddrive. Also: when you now run 'ipfs daemon' your node will help with requests for this content. 3) To update content with a static name, you can use IPNS, it's also mentioned in the article. IIRC: To resolve those entries (and get the latest ipfs content hash) the node with the corresponding key for the ipns entry needs to be online. If it isn't, you get an error like 'Path Resolve error: could not resolve name.'. Maybe come to the #ipfs irc channel on freenode for more specific questions.