Content Related Gateway Errors

[piboistudios]

• Version:

Browser only use case. 0.62.1

• Platform:

Google Chrome	97.0.4692.99 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable)
Revision	d740da257583289dbebd2eb37e8668928fac5ead-refs/branch-heads/4692@{#1461}
OS	Windows 10 Version 20H2 (Build 19042.1466)

• Subsystem:

Files

Severity:

High

Description:

Adding content with certain data results in gateway errors.
What I did:

• go to https://dweb.link/ipfs/${(await ipfs.add("Dalvin is Law")).cid} - This works
• go to https://dweb.link/ipfs/${(await ipfs.add("Dalvin -is- Law")).cid} - This doesn't work (Gateway error)
• go to https://dweb.link/ipfs/${(await ipfs.add("Dalvin been Law")).cid} - This works
• go to https://dweb.link/ipfs/${(await ipfs.add("Dalvin -been- Law")).cid} - This doesn't work (Gateway error)

This also happens for certain files. I believe it to be related to the encoding as I was intermittently getting an error complaining about the encoding of the hash... but alas I can't get this error anymore (just gateway errors)

This also happens with pretty much all other public gateways. I haven't set up an IPFS (full?) node myself just yet, just testing it out and ran into this. It works very well when it does, but it just doesn't sometimes, and it doesn't seem to be related to actual network availability. It seems pretty directly related to the actual content of the data in a way I am unfortunately struggling to explain given the limited knowledge of IPFS I have.

Steps to reproduce the error:

Oh, maybe I should've put the above section here. Well

• go to https://dweb.link/ipfs/${(await ipfs.add("Dalvin is Law")).cid} - This works
• go to https://dweb.link/ipfs/${(await ipfs.add("Dalvin -is- Law")).cid} - This doesn't work (Gateway error)
• go to https://dweb.link/ipfs/${(await ipfs.add("Dalvin been Law")).cid} - This works
• go to https://dweb.link/ipfs/${(await ipfs.add("Dalvin -been- Law")).cid} - This doesn't work (Gateway error)

[lidel]

@piboistudios these API calls look incorrect (see [docs for ipfs.add](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/blob/master/docs/core-api/FILES.md#ipfsadddata- ptions)) – seems that you omitted some context.

Mind telling us more? Namely:

• data or exact CIDs that work / error
• what exact error is returned by HTTP gateway?

Thanks.

[BigLep]

Closing because didn't get more info. Feel free to reopen with the provided info.