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0 pointsbrendoncarroll6y ago0 comments

WebFS stores data in things it calls "Stores". Stores can be anything that takes data and gives back a key to retrieve the data. Right now we have an IPFS and HTTP store built. An FTP server could also work as a store.

If you or a friend run the HTTP or FTP server then it will persist the data for you. IPFS doesn't incentivize data persistence so if WebFS is working on top of IPFS it inherits that problem. You could run WebFS on top of one of the storage networks and persisting your blobs would be incentivized.

WebFS is storage layer agnostic. Give it a Store, and it will give you a file system.

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mirimir6y ago· 2 in thread

OK, cool. I understand now.

So if WebFS is running on a system with access to Tor SocksPorts, can Stores be onion URLs?

Edit: If not, one could presumably route WebFS through OnionCat's IPv6 /48. But that only works with v2 onions, which are deprecated. However, tinc works with v3 onions. And either of those gives you UDP transport.

brendoncarrollOP6y ago

Yes, you could use the HTTP Store over Tor. I think you would have to configure the proxy environment variables for Go's HTTP client.

mirimir6y ago

Thanks. I'll try it, and comment on GitHub.

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