Force redirection to a particular public gateway

[rotemdan]

Hi, sorry if duplicate, but I couldn't find a similar issue.

Is there a way to force redirection of any IPFS link, either pointing to a localhost gateway or to a known public gateway, to a particular public gateway. For example all of:

http://127.0.0.1:8080/ipfs/QmbWqxBEKC3P8tqsKc98xmWNzrzDtRLMiMPL8wBuTGsMnR
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbWqxBEKC3P8tqsKc98xmWNzrzDtRLMiMPL8wBuTGsMnR
https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmbWqxBEKC3P8tqsKc98xmWNzrzDtRLMiMPL8wBuTGsMnR

Would be redirected to

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmbWqxBEKC3P8tqsKc98xmWNzrzDtRLMiMPL8wBuTGsMnR

?

[lidel]

Sure, just put https://cloudflare-ipfs.com in "Custom Gateway URL" in Preferences

Note that if you are not running local node (no API) then you also need to disable "Automatic Mode" and manually enable redirect oto "Custom Gateway", otherwise redirect will get disabled when API is offline.

ps. May I know why you want to set it up that way? Perhaps we could provide better UI for you use case.

[rotemdan]

Thanks. I'm trying it out and it seems to work so far. I think the confusion was that it is named "Custom Local Gateway URL" so I assumed it wouldn't work putting a public gateway there (as, say, it possibly uses a special REST api etc.), and similarly I assumed I should use the "public" field for the public one and that there should be an option to "force" it somehow.

I guess the wording can be improved since this seems like a reasonable use case (now that there are multiple high quality public gateways available)?

[lidel]

Thanks, that is good feedback.
In near future we want to simplify this and just have "IPFS Backends" with different capabilities.
That should make it easier to set up redirections like yours.
(Gathering ideas in #491)