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Preserve file name in `transfer.sh` mode (unencrypted content downloaded from an IPFS gateway)

Open aurelg opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

When no encryption is requested, the content shared with ipfs-wormhole can be retrieved from its IPFS hash and an IPFS gateway (ala transfer.sh). However, such a downloaded file would be named according to its IPFS hash. This is not very convenient.

A solution could be to put the content to send into a temporary directory, which is itself added to IPFS recursively with ipfs add -r. The HTTP link to the gateway could then contain both the IPFS hash of the directory and the real file name to the to allow for a proper naming of the downloaded file.

Two comments about the implementation:

  • A temporary directory cannot be piped into ipfs add as it is the case with the current implementation
  • If the content to send is a file, creating a hardlink in the temporary directory would be fine. If the content to send is a directory, it would first have to be compressed and stored into the temporary directory before the latter is added to IPFS. This requires some additional disk space.

aurelg avatar Nov 27 '18 14:11 aurelg