gateway limitations

[whyrusleeping]

We should have some settings so users can configure the gateway to work how they want. What im thinking of is the following:

• Max file size
  • Users should be able to set limits on how large of files the gateway serves
• block whitelist
  • specify that the gateway only serve certain blocks
• block blacklist
  • specify that the gateway should not serve certain blocks
• max bandwidth
  • specify the maximum bandwidth the gateway should use

[jbenet]

👍 to all.

can we use the terms blocklist or denylist and allowlist or safelist ?

[whyrusleeping]

i think changing terminology up on people gets confusing, but i guess we can pick something different.

[btc]

+1 for removing blacklist and whitelist from the lexicon

allow & deny seem to be common and relatively neutral.

[koalalorenzo]

Any update on this feature? :)
At the moment I am solving this with NGINX but it would be nice to have it implemented directly into go-ipfs!

[Stebalien]

As far as I know, nobody's working on this at the moment (we use nginx as a reverse-proxy as well).