Retrieving DAG nodes via a public gateway

[khinsen]

Is there a public IPFS gateway that allows retrieving arbitrary DAG nodes? I tried ipfs.io, but it seems to use “ipfs cat” and thus works only with file-type nodes:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/z8mWaJHXieAVxxLagBpdaNWFEBKVWmMiE

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ipfs cat /ipfs/z8mWaJHXieAVxxLagBpdaNWFEBKVWmMiE: unknown node type

I don’t plan to make any heavy use of such a gateway. I am just looking for a way to illustrate in a tutorial that a piece of data added to the local daemon is in fact accessible from everywhere.

[olizilla]

Not yet. The gateway functionality built into go-ipfs does not currently support rendering dag nodes that dont represent directories and files (e.g. dag-cbor, ipld-git, etc)

How to view ipfs dag CID content from http gateways?

After using the ipfs.dag.put method, received a CID string: bafyreic6x6ekvd3wc56vgol75nfygvav6pxj5raqvdghyqeyxmgcvmx6fy If I now try this: http://ipfs.io/ipfs/bafyreic6x6ekvd3wc56vgol75nfygvav6pxj5raqvdghyqeyxmgcvmx6fy it does not resolve. How to view this dag CID content with public ipfs gateways?

[khinsen]

Thanks for the pointer to that discussion. It gave me an idea for a workaround: I can tell people to feed their local CID to explore.ipfs.io, making sure to do so on a browser running on a different machine (a phone would do) to prevent the site from using the local daemon.