IPIP-402: Partial CAR Support on Trustless Gateways

ipip-template.md

@@ -36,13 +36,6 @@ interoperable implementations.
 When modifying an existing specification file, this section should provide a
 summary of changes. When adding new specification files, list all of them.
 
-## Test fixtures
-
-List relevant CIDs. Describe how implementations can use them to determine
-specification compliance. This section can be skipped if IPIP does not deal
-with the way IPFS handles content-addressed data, or the modified specification
-file already includes this information.
-
 ## Design rationale
 
 The rationale fleshes out the specification by describing what motivated
@@ -67,6 +60,13 @@ Explain the security implications/considerations relevant to the proposed change
 
 Describe alternate designs that were considered and related work.
 
+## Test fixtures
+
+List relevant CIDs. Describe how implementations can use them to determine
+specification compliance. This section can be skipped if IPIP does not deal
+with the way IPFS handles content-addressed data, or the modified specification
+file already includes this information.
+
 ### Copyright
 
 Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).

src/http-gateways/path-gateway.md

@@ -214,11 +214,13 @@ These are the equivalents:
 - `format=cbor` → `Accept: application/cbor`
 - `format=ipns-record` → `Accept: application/vnd.ipfs.ipns-record`
 
-<!-- TODO Planned: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/8769
-- `selector=<cid>`  can be used for passing a CID with [IPLD selector](https://ipld.io/specs/selectors)
-    - Selector should be in dag-json or dag-cbor format
-    - This is a powerful primitive that allows for fetching subsets of data in specific order, either as raw bytes, or a CAR stream. Think “HTTP range requests”, but for IPLD, and more powerful.
--->
+### `dag-scope` (request query parameter)
+
+Only used on CAR requests, same as [dag-scope](/http-gateways/trustless-gateway/#dag-scope-request-query-parameter) from :cite[trustless-gateway]
+
+### `entity-bytes` (request query parameter)
+
+Only used on CAR requests, same as [entity-bytes](/http-gateways/trustless-gateway/#entity-bytes-request-query-parameter) from :cite[trustless-gateway]
 
 # HTTP Response
 
@@ -576,7 +578,11 @@ The following response types require an explicit opt-in, can only be requested w
 - Raw Block (`?format=raw`)
   - Opaque bytes, see [application/vnd.ipld.raw](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ipld.raw).
 - CAR (`?format=car`)
-  - Arbitrary DAG as a verifiable CAR file or a stream, see [application/vnd.ipld.car](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ipld.car).
+  - A CAR file or a stream that contains all blocks required to trustlessly verify the requested content path query, see [application/vnd.ipld.car](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ipld.car) and :cite[trustless-gateway].
+  - **Note:** by default, block order in CAR response is not deterministic,
+    blocks can be returned in different order, depending on implementation
+    choices (traversal, speed at which blocks arrive from the network, etc).
+    An opt-in ordered CAR responses MAY be introduced in a future IPIP.
 - TAR (`?format=tar`)
   - Deserialized UnixFS files and directories as a TAR file or a stream, see :cite[ipip-0288].
 - IPNS Record

src/http-gateways/trustless-gateway.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ description: >
   Trustless Gateways are a minimal subset of Path Gateways that allow light IPFS
   clients to retrieve data behind a CID and verify its integrity without delegating any
   trust to the gateway itself.
-date: 2023-03-30
+date: 2023-04-17
 maturity: reliable
 editors:
   - name: Marcin Rataj
@@ -17,25 +17,33 @@ tags: ['httpGateways', 'lowLevelHttpGateways']
 order: 1
 ---
 
-Trustless Gateway is a minimal _subset_ of :cite[path-gateway]
+Trustless Gateway is a _subset_ of :cite[path-gateway]
 that allows light IPFS clients to retrieve data behind a CID and verify its
 integrity without delegating any trust to the gateway itself.
 
 The minimal implementation means:
 
-- data is requested by CID, only supported path is `/ipfs/{cid}`
-- no path traversal or recursive resolution, no UnixFS/IPLD decoding server-side
 - response type is always fully verifiable: client can decide between a raw block or a CAR stream
+- no UnixFS/IPLD deserialization
+- for CAR files:
+  - the behavior is identical to :cite[path-gateway]
+- for raw blocks:
+  - data is requested by CID, only supported path is `/ipfs/{cid}`
+  - no path traversal or recursive resolution
 
 # HTTP API
 
 A subset of "HTTP API" of :cite[path-gateway].
 
-## `GET /ipfs/{cid}[?{params}]`
+## `GET /ipfs/{cid}[/{path}][?{params}]`
 
-Downloads data at specified CID.
+Downloads verifiable data for the specified **immutable** content path.
 
-## `HEAD /ipfs/{cid}[?{params}]`
+Optional `path` is permitted for requests that specify CAR format (`application/vnd.ipld.car`).
+
+For RAW requests, only `GET /ipfs/{cid}[?{params}]` is supported.
+
+## `HEAD /ipfs/{cid}[/{path}][?{params}]`
 
 Same as GET, but does not return any payload.
 
@@ -45,13 +53,13 @@ Downloads data at specified IPNS Key. Verifiable :cite[ipns-record] can be reque
 
 ## `HEAD /ipns/{key}[?{params}]`
 
-same as GET, but does not return any payload.
+Same as GET, but does not return any payload.
 
 # HTTP Request
 
 Same as in :cite[path-gateway], but with limited number of supported response types.
 
-## HTTP Request Headers
+## Request Headers
 
 ### `Accept` (request header)
 
@@ -66,12 +74,76 @@ Below response types MUST to be supported:
 - [application/vnd.ipld.car](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ipld.car) – disables IPLD/IPFS deserialization, requests a verifiable CAR stream to be returned
 - [application/vnd.ipfs.ipns-record](https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/vnd.ipfs.ipns-record) – requests a verifiable :cite[ipns-record] (multicodec `0x0300`).
 
+## Request Query Parameters
+
+### :dfn[dag-scope] (request query parameter)
+
+Optional, `dag-scope=(block|entity|all)` with default value `all`, only available for CAR requests.
+
+Describes the shape of the DAG fetched the terminus of the specified path whose blocks
+are included in the returned CAR file after the blocks required to traverse
+path segments.
+
+- `block` - Only the root block at the end of the path is returned after blocks
+  required to verify the specified path segments.
+
+- `entity` - For queries that traverse UnixFS data, `entity` roughly means return
+  blocks needed to verify the terminating element of the requested content path.
+  For UnixFS, all the blocks needed to read an entire UnixFS file, or enumerate a UnixFS directory.
+  For all queries that reference non-UnixFS data, `entity` is equivalent to `block`
+
+- `all` - Transmit the entire contiguous DAG that begins at the end of the path
+  query, after blocks required to verify path segments
+
+When present, returned `Etag` must include unique prefix based on the passed scope type.
+
+### :dfn[entity-bytes] (request query parameter)
+
+Optional, `entity-bytes=from:to` with the default value `0:*`, only available for CAR requests.
+Serves as a trustless form of an HTTP Range Request.
+
+When the terminating entity at the end of the specified content path can be
+interpreted as a continuous array of bytes (such as a UnixFS file), returns
+only the minimal set of blocks required to verify the specified byte range of
+said entity.
+
+Allowed values for `from` and `to` are positive integers where `to` >= `from`, which
+limit the return blocks to needed to satisfy the range `[from,to]`:
+
+- `from` value gives the byte-offset of the first byte in a range.
+- `to` value gives the byte-offset of the last byte in the range; that is,
+the byte positions specified are inclusive.  Byte offsets start at zero.
+
+If the entity at the end of the path cannot be interpreted as a continuous
+array of bytes (such as a DAG-CBOR/JSON map, or UnixFS directory), this
+parameter has no effect.
+
+The following additional values are supported:
+
+- `*` can be substituted for end-of-file
+  - `entity-bytes=0:*` is the entire file (a verifiable version of HTTP request for `Range: 0-`)
+- Negative numbers can be used for referring to bytes from the end of a file
+  - `entity-bytes=-1024:*` is the last 1024 bytes of a file
+    (verifiable version of HTTP request for `Range: -1024`)
+  - It is also permissible (unlike with HTTP Range Requests) to ask for the
+    range of 500 bytes from the beginning of the file to 1000 bytes from the
+    end: `entity-bytes=499:-1000`
+
+When present, returned `Etag` must include unique prefix based on the passed range.
+
 # HTTP Response
 
 Below MUST be implemented **in addition** to "HTTP Response" of :cite[path-gateway].
 
 ## HTTP Response Headers
 
+### `Content-Type` (response header)
+
+MUST be returned and include additional format-specific parameters when possible.
+
+If a CAR stream was requested, the response MUST include the parameter specifying CAR version.
+For example: `Content-Type: application/vnd.ipld.car; version=1`
+
 ### `Content-Disposition` (response header)
 
 MUST be returned and set to `attachment` to ensure requested bytes are not rendered by a web browser.