1--- 2c: Copyright (C) Mark Gaiser, <markg85@gmail.com> 3SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4Long: ipfs-gateway 5Arg: <URL> 6Help: Gateway for IPFS 7Protocols: IPFS 8Added: 8.4.0 9Category: curl 10Multi: single 11See-also: 12 - help 13 - manual 14Example: 15 - --ipfs-gateway $URL ipfs:// 16--- 17 18# `--ipfs-gateway` 19 20Specify which gateway to use for IPFS and IPNS URLs. Not specifying this 21instead makes curl check if the IPFS_GATEWAY environment variable is set, or 22if a `~/.ipfs/gateway` file holding the gateway URL exists. 23 24If you run a local IPFS node, this gateway is by default available under 25`http://localhost:8080`. A full example URL would look like: 26 27 curl --ipfs-gateway http://localhost:8080 \ 28 ipfs://bafybeigagd5nmnn2iys2f3 29 30There are many public IPFS gateways. See for example: 31https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/ 32 33If you opt to go for a remote gateway you need to be aware that you completely 34trust the gateway. This might be fine in local gateways that you host 35yourself. With remote gateways there could potentially be malicious actors 36returning you data that does not match the request you made, inspect or even 37interfere with the request. You may not notice this when using curl. A 38mitigation could be to go for a "trustless" gateway. This means you locally 39verify that the data. Consult the docs page on trusted vs trustless: 40https://docs.ipfs.tech/reference/http/gateway/#trusted-vs-trustless 41
