This Web Gateway is a regular Peernet client that provides a web gateway to Peernet. It allows to access files in Peernet through an open website. Accessing files via this web gateway is useful for regular web 2 users. For example, one can share a file on Peernet and then use this web gateway to make it accessible on Twitter.
Download the latest version of Go. To build:
go build
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The config filename is hard-coded to Config.yaml and is created on the first run. Please see the core library for individual settings to change.
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Access to / will show a generic information page.
The main functionality is to provide URLs in the format /[blockchain public key]/[file hash] and other variations (using a directory name instead of file hash). This page shall provide access to one or multiple files shared via a user's blockchain. Access shall include download, preview, and providing a native Peernet link. The blockchain public key may be the node ID or the peer ID. Currently only hex encoding is supported.
Native Peernet linsk should start with the peernet:// custom scheme. On Windows such links can be opened with a registered protocol handler.
To provide the best user experience, those static pages shall be generated immediately and use JavaScript to dynamically load the requested resource using the embedded API.
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Todo. A cache folder should temporarily cache requested files so that they are available faster.