Display .eth or other domain rather than IPFS redirect

[rachelhamlin]

User Story

As a user, I want to receive permission requests from a specific URL—not ipfs.infura—so that I am aware of who is requesting my data.

Description

Type: Feature

Summary: Rather than displaying a hash for IPFS-hosted DApps in the browser, keep the human readable format of the redirected domain.

Expected behavior

Instead of https://ipfs.infura.io/ipfs/QmYhTGg88WvJh9K86m3JYow3QxdXMkgk8stkTDqy87joZn/, for example, I would see statusnames.eth in the URL bar. Any requests from this DApp would come from statusnames (if not a default DApp in Status).

Actual behavior

Currently, the browser displays the IPFS hash a domain is redirected to, and this in turn is used when the DApp requests user permissions for something.

Reproduction

Navigate to vote.status.im in any browser.

[jeluard]

The eventual website path should be displayed too. We might want to display associate hash after a long press on the bar.

@denis-sharypin Could you provide some design guidance?

[denis-sharypin]

@jeluard , @rachelhamlin I had this in mind. wdyt?

[jeluard]

@denis-sharypin Looks great! Can you make sure only the website path is visible? i.e. no https://ipfs.io/ipfs/Qmxxxx/but only what comes next? So  /, /index.html, /path/document.html ..

[rachelhamlin]

@jeluard why did we want only the path to be visible? Did you mean to have the path following denis.stateofus.eth?

[jeluard]

@rachelhamlin In case of a website hosted on IPFS there is no real URL. The one we have right now (infura based) and kind of implementation details and I don't think we should show it.

So the only interesting part left is the current path the user is navigating (that's index.html, /folder/user.html?key=value, ..)

[rachelhamlin]

After discussing this in Status, I think that if we want to display file paths, it should come after the ENS name. For example:
statusnames.eth/page.html

[rachelhamlin]

Curious: what happens when I interact with the browser bar in this mockup? It has two lines. Which text am I editing when I tap it? Should there be some animation to minimize one line?

[flexsurfer]

let's make it simple, show only ens, and if you click on it show full url

[rachelhamlin]

That works @flexsurfer!

[flexsurfer]

@rachelhamlin Reproduction Navigate to vote.status.im in any browser. , but vote.status.im is regular dns, it's not ens, redirect for it implemented on status.im side, we don't do any redirects for it in the status browser

[rachelhamlin]

Gotcha @flexsurfer so we can only handle domains that the browser redirects, aka ENS addresses?