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Integrate with magnet: URI scheme #256

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sonatagreen opened this issue May 27, 2017 · 4 comments
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Integrate with magnet: URI scheme #256

sonatagreen opened this issue May 27, 2017 · 4 comments
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sonatagreen commented May 27, 2017 •
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Not all magnet links should be handled through IPFS, but it seems likely possible to offer the option. Maybe something like a protocol handler?
@sonatagreen sonatagreen changed the title Integrate with magnet Integrate with magnet: URI scheme May 27, 2017
@lidel lidel added the kind/discussion Topical discussion; usually not changes to codebase label May 27, 2017
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lidel commented May 27, 2017 •
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@diasdavid any thoughts on this?

I've seen you started work on adding Torrent support to IPFS in ipfs/js-ipfs#779, but got a feeling its too early to have it working end-to-end.

All I was able to found about Torrent and IPFS:

It does not paint coherent picture.
What is the current status/roadmap for torrent support?

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This sounds like something we can potentially do as soon as torrent support is well tested. It shouldn't take me too long to get something working out of the door, but at the same time, I'm already stretching my time across a multitude of endeavors such as the ipfs-service-worker. I'll come back to this issue once I get back to this feature on js-ipfs.

@lidel lidel added the kind/enhancement A net-new feature or improvement to an existing feature label Jul 9, 2017
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cvan commented Mar 7, 2018

With the recent protocol changes that landed in Firefox, does this change the proposed task items in this issue?

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lidel commented Mar 7, 2018 •
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AFAIK magnet was not prefixed, so recent changes had no impact on this issue.

There was a new WebExtension API introduced in Firefox 54 that enabled us to provide an opt-in handler for magnet URIs (more details in #164 (comment)). So we are good on the API front.

I think this issue is blocked mainly by work that needs to happen in js-ipfs first, namely:

@lidel lidel added the status/deferred Conscious decision to pause or backlog label Sep 22, 2018
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