IPNS-Link

Prototype implementation of IPNS-Link.

TL;DR

Expose dynamic site / web app / server-side code with IPNS. Run your http-server at localhost and get a URL that is basically an IPNS key. Put the key at any IPFS gateway (e.g. https://ipfs.io) or IPNS-Link-Gateway (e.g. https://ipns.live) in your browser and your site loads.

Usage

See Manual.

Test drive

Follow Quick-Start.

Tutorials

Notes

This is just a proof-of-concept and is by no means foolproof. Although it mostly works, optimizations and enhancements are possible.
To keep things simple, Manifest encryption and HLS stream using IPNS have been left out for now.
Those who turn away from IPFS because of its huge bandwidth consumption need not worry. IPNS-Link takes great pains to work around this.
If your website contains relative URLs of the form /ipfs/CIDhash, IPNS-Link serves the corresponding resources from IPFS, decreasing the load on your server.
You can configure IPNS-Link to serve all static content in your website, such as images, CSS and javascripts, from IPFS thus effectively acting as a CDN.
IPNS-Link uses IPFS’s built in NAT traversal tools. So a public IP is not a must, but is always preferable.
You can configure IPNS-Link to redirect visitors whenever your machine goes offline for a while. So even intermittent connectivity is workable.

Community

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