On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 03:42:34PM +0200, Hugo Valtier via curl-library wrote: > Instead of using the Path Gateway it uses the Trustless Gateway which > answers with a stream of blocks and walks the merkle-tree, verifies > hashes and deserializes it on the fly. > This would make curl or libcurl capable of downloading ipfs:// content > from any reachable IPFS node, not just a localhost trusted one.
I'm far from an expert in IPFS, but my understanding was that there were two main ways to get files over IPFS: one is to get them via HTTP from an IPFS gateway that knows about IPFS (what curl does now) and the other is to become a full-fledged node in the IPFS network and speak the IPFS protocols to the world. What you describe sounds like a third method, where one may somehow find a full IPFS node that happens to have your file and talk a subset of the IPFS protocol to get that file. Is that an accurate assessment? If so, is that really a mode that would be used by a significant number of people? How do you find an appropriate node for each file, for example? -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html
