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0 pointsclueless4049y ago0 comments

> The site host doesn't have to participate in IPFS for this to work.

Really?

An IPFS user will scrape HTTP content, republish it over IPFS and update a directory of where non-IPFS content can be found over IPFS?

I must have missed that part.

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slang8009y ago· 2 in thread

Yeah - there's a ton of immutable URLs on the web. All of CDNJS/JSDelivr/Google Hosted Libraries, most of raw.github.com, all Imgur & Instagram images, all YouTube video streams (excluding annotations & subtitles), and all torrent file caching sites (like itorrents.org). There are probably some large ones I'm forgetting about, but just mapping immutable URLs to IPFS could probably cover 1/3rd of Internet traffic.

Check out https://github.com/ipfs/archives to learn more.

clueless404OP9y ago

IPFS archives look like something entirely different from what the grandparent was talking about.

Sure, you can manually publish archives over IPFS, but that's not something that automatically creates an IPFS cache copy of whatever you are surfing.

slang8009y ago

IPFS archives is the effort that's going on right now to archive sites. Eventually there will be a system for automatically scraping & re-publishing content on IPFS.

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