Encoding urls with http/https

[cpacia]

I don't know if I'm missing something but is there a way to use the http/https codes to encode a url?
ex) dropbox.com/asdf/

I can use the AddProtocol function but it can't parse added protocols with a non zero length.

I'm able to hack around it but using /ipfs/<encoded url>/https/ but that seems a bit ugly.

[RichardLitt]

@whyrusleeping?

[jbenet]

Yeah we want to be able to encode http in multiaddr. We had some work on websocket addresses, @whyrusleeping can you point to it here?

We can do http addrs like:

• simple paths (no query string) just get appended: .../http/foo.com/baz/quuz
• paths with complicated strings, and query strings with params with slashes will have to get encoded: .../http_/cb123c4cb1234c3b124cb1234cb123 (suppose that's hex)

[victorb]

We should have a discussion about defining /http as a whole over here: multiformats/multiaddr#63

[bobheadxi]

@cpacia you seem to imply this was working:

I'm able to hack around it but using /ipfs//https/ but that seems a bit ugly.

since there has been no activity on multiformats/multiaddr#63, i was wondering if you could explain what you meant? specifically, I'm trying to use ipfs swarm connect to a node whose connection is routed through a server (ie 127.0.0.1/network/swarm)

if anyone else could provide any pointers it would be much appreciated as well!