ENS protocol redirect server

[mikehelmick]

TL;DR

A prototype for this exists in PR #546

The current ens protocol spec is not clickable in all messaging apps that may be used to receive SMS deep links on mobile devices.

In order to ensure that all users have a clickable link, we will provide a redirect server that verification server operators can use to

Design

Proposal

Simple URL redirect service. This needs to support custom subdomain mapping to ENS link.

Having unique subdomains allows per-region applications to to register that intent and handle it in the mobile OS.

As an example.

https://us-wa.example.com/v?c=1234abcd5678efgh

will redirect to

ens://v?c=1234abcd5678efgh&r=US-WA

Configuration will consist of 2 elements
URI prefix to simply rewrite to ens://
and the region to append
will add "&r=REGION"

redirect requests that reach the server and do not match will return a 404.

Alternatives considered

the existing ens:// schema has proven not to work.

Resources

ens protocol spec

Additional information

For production deployment, request logging should be disabled.

/kind enhancement
/assign

[mikehelmick]

PR for server itself is #546

Still to do

• Terraform
• Update main server w/ instructions for deep links

[mikehelmick]

/assign @icco
is going to take on the terraform piece

[sethvargo]

@icco are there remaining items here that aren't tracked in other issues?

[icco]

Nope we should be good here. #613 and #615 we're the last fixes.

/close

[google-oss-robot]

@icco: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

Nope we should be good here. #613 and #615 we're the last fixes.

/close

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