Re:GitHub Outage
by ianopolous on Thursday January 28, 2016 @03:31AM
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Content addressed links at least make this possible. With http you have to reach a particular server. If that server is down, the link is broken. With ipfs all you need is at least one machine on the entire network to be serving a file and the link will work and as an added bonus you can verify the hash of what you get so a mitm attack on that link is impossible.
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Very interesting. Do you think ipfs could be used to mimic a server to host a static website that could be loaded by a browser?
Re:GitHub Outage
by ianopolous on Saturday January 30, 2016 @10:19AM
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You mean like this?
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNhFJjGcMPqpuYfxL62VVB9528NXqDNMFXiqN5...
:-) IPFS includes an optional http gateway to give the traditional web access to IPFS before browsers support the IPFS protocol natively.