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		detaro on Sept 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway You'll need a "centralized" version of a web site for those that don't use IPFS today. That's what a gateway provides. Clients using the IPFS protocol will ignore them and fetch the distributed version.

dboreham on Sept 17, 2018 [–]

>Clients using the IPFS protocol will ignore them and fetch the distributed version

Except they won't know the hash for the content they're looking for..

detaro on Sept 18, 2018 | [–]

Clients and gateways use the same DNS entries to know that.

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