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dat-gateway
No longer maintained. Check out the https://github.com/garbados/dat-gateway fork instead.
A configurable in-memory Dat-to-HTTP gateway, so you can visit Dat archives from your browser.
If you want a browser that can visit Dat archives, check out Beaker.
Install
To get the dat-gateway command for running your own gateway, use npm:
npm i -g dat-gateway
Usage
You can run dat-gateway to start a gateway server that listens on port 3000. You can also configure it! You can print usage information with dat-gateway -h:
$ dat-gateway -h
dat-gateway
Options:
--version Show version number [boolean]
--config Path to JSON config file
--port, -p Port for the gateway to listen on. [default: 3000]
--dir, -d Directory to use as a cache.[string] [default: "~/.dat-gateway"]
--max, -m Maximum number of archives to serve at a time. [default: 20]
--maxAge, -M Number of milliseconds before archives are removed from the
cache. [default: 600000]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]
You can visit Dat archives through the gateway using a route like this:
http://localhost:3000/{datKey}/{path...}
For example:
http://localhost:3000/40a7f6b6147ae695bcbcff432f684c7bb5291ea339c28c1755896cdeb80bd2f9/assets/img/beaker-0.7.gif
The gateway will even resolve URLs using Dat-DNS:
http://localhost:3000/garbados.hashbase.io/icons/favicon.ico
Contributions
All contributions are welcome: bug reports, feature requests, "why doesn't this work" questions, patches for fixes and features, etc. For all of the above, file an issue or submit a pull request.