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ux: add configuration toggle for delegated routing #288

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lidel opened this issue Jun 10, 2024 · 4 comments
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ux: add configuration toggle for delegated routing #288

lidel opened this issue Jun 10, 2024 · 4 comments

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lidel commented Jun 10, 2024

IPFS Camp UX improvement suggestion based on discussions with @aschmahmann

Current state

  • service-worker-gateway sends a lot of requests to https://delegated-routing.dev but (afaik) we don't have direct retrieval yet, so there is no benefit from it

Proposed UX fix

  • Empty list of deleegated routing endpoints is bad UX, as user needs to know URL of endpoint to enable it
  • Let's add a toggle that enables/disables use of addresses defined in the routing configuration field
    • It should be disabled by default, until we have direct retrieval working
@lidel lidel added this to the IPFS Camp milestone Jun 10, 2024
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aschmahmann commented Jun 10, 2024

@lidel I don't know if that fix is quite enough. If the delegated routing endpoints are being used for IPNS resolution (as opposed to using the trustless gateway endpoints) then we still need them around even if not doing direct retrievals.

We could at the Helia level not turn on the content or peer routing systems though (or potentially use the trustless gateways for IPNS fetch).

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lidel commented Jun 10, 2024

Yes, the idea here is to have "quality of life" toggle that disables all delegated routing, and only relies on trustless gateways.

You can still do IPNS via trustless gateways alone, but if verified-fetch does not leverage it yet, we can simply error on IPNS errors, informing user they need to enable delegated routing.

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2color commented Jun 13, 2024

This seems like a duplicate of #267.

@lidel I don't know if that fix is quite enough. If the delegated routing endpoints are being used for IPNS resolution (as opposed to using the trustless gateway endpoints) then we still need them around even if not doing direct retrievals.

That's right. Currently, Helia is built in a way that accepts 3 kinds of routers (libp2p, delegatedHTTPRouting, and httpGatewayRouting) and by default includes both delegatedHTTPRouting, and httpGatewayRouting. The problem is that if we remove the delegatedHTTPRouting, there's no way for Helia to Resolve IPNS names.

I've opened ipfs/helia#558 to address this gap in Helia.

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lidel commented Jun 28, 2024

Descoping from Camp milestone due to impact on DNSLink (see #303 (review)).

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