IPFS Gateway

IPFS allows one to benefit from a decentralized infrastructure by moving away from traditional location-based addressing to content-based addressing.

"IPFS is a distributed system for storing and accessing files, websites, applications, and data.”

A typical URL follows the structure as seen below. First comes the gateway URL, which in this case is https://cloudflare-ipfs.com followed by /ipfs/ and the content identifier (CID) which is how IPFS can get content from multiple places.

https://{gateway URL}/ipfs/{content ID}/{optional path to resource}

Here a small example:

https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmfSky1pj6A2mUan7gSgTzQAR4nKa3QeqJBPsXNeahGhGt/

And with a CNAME we can have a shorter and easier to remember URL:

https://ipfs.cf-testing.com/

Additionally, feel free to check out the Get started Building Web3 Apps with Cloudflare blog post where you can find an open-source codebase to test a Web3 demo application.