ipfs.pics support?

[interfect]

Can you make the actual image urls from ipfs.pics go through the local gateway instead?

[lidel]

I think adding a configuration option where user can provide a list of domains from which https?://<domain>/ipfs/ is redirected to the local gateway is a better idea.

That way not only ipfs.pics is supported, but any other site.

[jbenet]

make sense to me.

want to point out --though-- that:

ipfs.pics/<hash>  !=  ipfs.io/ipfs/<hash>

See:

• https://ipfs.pics/QmagBFqo41RrHpk3GKvBCpjrd2H61ntgaQWNMVasZuJJn3
• https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmagBFqo41RrHpk3GKvBCpjrd2H61ntgaQWNMVasZuJJn3

the ipfs.pics server returns the ipfs.pics UI in the same page. I would probably build it with URIs like this:

• /ipns/ipfs.pics/view#/ipfs/QmagBFqo41RrHpk3GKvBCpjrd2H61ntgaQWNMVasZuJJn3
• /dns/ipfs.pics/#/ipfs/QmagBFqo41RrHpk3GKvBCpjrd2H61ntgaQWNMVasZuJJn3

So the app is always returned, and the parameter is fed to the app directly via the URI hash (or query string params).

[jbenet]

though yeah, hash-links are really annoying... maybe we can come up with some way to make ipfs implementations understand that a url like:

• /dns/ipfs.pics/view/ (where /<rest> could be /ipfs/<hash>)

means

• use the app at /dns/ipfs.pics/view
• feed /<rest> to that app.

maybe we could establish a convention of defining apps such that ipfs implementations know to load a resource and feed "the rest of the path" to the app? (the same way that unix file systems will defer to a filesystem implementation mounted at a particular mount point, and feed the rest of the path to that, or the way that url routers in servers (or single page webapps) work)

[jbenet]

maybe continue that part of the discussion here ipfs/notes#73

[lidel]

Even with current design of ipfs.pics we can fetch images from IPFS.
Look at the actual, direct URL of a single image -- It is what we expect:

<img src="//ipfs.pics/ipfs/QmagBFqo41RrHpk3GKvBCpjrd2H61ntgaQWNMVasZuJJn3" class="picture">

Which gives:

ipfs.pics/ipfs/<hash>  ==  ipfs.io/ipfs/<hash>

FYI I added ipfs.pics to the list of known public IPFS gateways in ipfs-firefox-addon v1.3.1

To be precise, the implementation in my addon is that only URLs matching

<one-of-whitelisted-gateway-hosts>/ipfs/<hash>

are redirected to a local gateway

[jbenet]

oh nice