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> Would BitTorrent also be suitable for hosting embeddable content? Same as IPFS: gateways can exist. It's not specific to Bittorrent, or IPFS. > A magnet URL
by rakoo 3y ago
> Would BitTorrent also be suitable for hosting embeddable content?
Same as IPFS: gateways can exist. It's not specific to Bittorrent, or IPFS.
> A magnet URL is mainly a file hash and doesn't seem to encode a particular peer server, kinda like IPFS.
Magnet links can include a HTTP server that also hosts the content
- hot_gril 3y agoI'm sure a BitTorrent gateway can exist, but I'm wondering why it doesn't seem to "be a thing." I've never seen one used, nor do I see an obvious public one when searching. Whereas IPFS gateways are so mainstream that even Cloudflare runs a public one.
- rakoo 3y agoIt's because of the kind of content that is shared. BitTorrent serves a lot of content you are not allowed to redistribute, so having an open gateway immediately puts you at risk of aiding the distribution of content. But it does work, someone even made something native to browsers so browsers themselves can share content: https://webtorrent.io/ https://webtorrent.io/. There are even fuse "gateways" to make it native to your computer and pretend the files exist locally: https://github.com/search?q=bittorrent+fuse&type=repositories https://github.com/search?q=bittorrent+fuse&type=repositorie... IPFS doesn't seem to be used for that kind of content much, it seems to be targeted more towards web-native content (html pages, images, that kind of stuff). It's probably safer for Cloudflare to run this.