bzz-web v0.0.0

bzz-web

Adds bzz-web:/ that proxies bzz:/ URLs, so that you can surf the Dweb on Swarm.

How to use

1. Run Swarm, which should be listening for HTTP requests on localhost:8500
2. Run bzz-web, which should listen for HTTP requests on localhost:8511

   npx bzz-swarm

3. Point your browser to:
   • Instead of: http://localhost:8500/bzz:/somehash/
   • ...this: http://localhost:8511/bzz-web:/somehash/

You can use PORT, BZZ_HOST, and BZZ_PORT to override default values.

Why

The built-in HTTP router that handles bzz:/ URLs in Swarm, does not cater to web-browser specific routing customs & expectations, for example handling trailing /-es and index.html files.

This is a simple server which takes the URLs, and treats them as a "regular" HTTP web server would, traverse the Swarm manifest tries, and proxies the requests to Swarm as bzz-raw:/ file hashes.

Caveat

This is only intended to be a proof-of-concept, and have demo quality.

It might (probably will) not work for your use case.

Patches welcome!

Author

Brendan Graetz

Licence

GPL-3.0