ipfs / ipfs/kubo

Limit the size of files that IPFS will fetch from the P2P network.

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Description

The IPFS api is nice and simple, but can cause problems for people wanting to use it as a gateway to serve images. A request for the wrong hash could cause ipfsd to start fetching a ton of data that is not actually desired.

The solutions I have at the moment are to do `ipfs file ls` first and then fetch, but that requires me to set up my own middleware when it would be nice to have the daemon fetch it for me.

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