IPFS Companion not switching to local Gateway even when X-Ipfs-Path is provided

[simonfoilen]

Browser Setup

• OS: Linux Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
• Browser: Chrome Version 87.0.4280.88 (Official Build) (64-bit)
• IPFS Companion Version: 2.16.0
• IPFS Companion has been reset to default preferences

Working for main site

Steps:

• Going on https://ipfs.io/
• [OK] URL becomes http://ipfs.io.ipns.localhost:8080/

Issue with a custom site

Steps to repreduce

Steps:

• Going on http://test.cloud.foilen.com/
• [ERROR] URL is stuck to http://test.cloud.foilen.com/
  • Expected to become http://test.cloud.foilen.com.ipns.localhost:8080/ or http://localhost:8080/ipns/test.cloud.foilen.com

Custom site setup

[OK] DNSLink

dig test.cloud.foilen.com TXT

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    test.cloud.foilen.com.	1	IN	TXT	"dnslink=/ipns/k51qzi5uqu5dhuj92m8egzrbx6e0apodpebvs7y4fqe1rc6rxb1hsiwgovl94o"

[OK] X-Ipfs-Path Header

curl -v https://test.cloud.foilen.com 2>&1 | grep X-Ipfs-Path
    < X-Ipfs-Path: /ipns/test.cloud.foilen.com/

Misc

Also, using my local Gateway directly is working

• [OK] Going on http://test.cloud.foilen.com.ipns.localhost:8080/

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Could you let me know if my setup is missing something or fix the Chrome extension if there is a bug with it?

thanks

[jessicaschilling]

Thank you for the detailed report. Many of the core team are at reduced capacity for the holidays, so it's suggested to open this as a post in the forums at discuss.ipfs.io so your question can be more easily seen by the community as a whole. Thank you!

[lidel]

Hi @simon, thank you for bringing this issue up.
I can confirm this is a bug related to parsing /ipns/ in DNSLink records, we are tracking it in: ipfs/kubo#6454 (comment)

TLDR workaround: until it is fixed upstream in go-ipfs, you need to use immutable paths starting with /ipfs/{cid}/

[simonfoilen]

I confirm the workaround works. Thanks

[lidel]

I believe this is fixed in v2.17.1 :-)