Tutorial: The Myriad ways to Access and Distribute IPFS Content
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These Lessons are tested with go-ipfs version 0.5.0. Please update this file on github to reflect any other versions that have been tested.
IPFS hashes are permanent, content-addressed identifiers for your content. This means that you can use many different ways to access, replicate, and/or redistribute the same content using the same link/identifier. The lessons in this tutorial explore many of the ways that you can do this. If you want to learn about why it is valuable to have all of these options, read the lesson on
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All of the lessons use the same content: a snapshot of the Turkish version of Wikipedia.
These Lessons will teach you how to
Define content addressing and compare it with location-addressing
Use IPFS content hashes to access the same content in many ways with the same link
Access content through the public IPFS gateways at ipfs.io
Access content through any IPFS node's http gateway
Access content using the IPFS browser extension
Access IPFS content through Tor
Use a sneakernet to move and redistribute IPFS content
Explain the implications of being able to access IPFS content through so many different paths
Review the lesson on Retrieving content from a peer
Review these lessons from the Tutorial on Interacting with the Classical (HTTP) Web
Review: Lesson: Using an HTTP browser to retrieve files from local IPFS gateway
Review: Lesson: Using the public IPFS gateways at ipfs.io
Read about
Review:
If you're wondering how to update content after you've shared it, see the
If you want to know more about how IPFS stores this content intrernally using Merkle DAGs, go to the