How to fix 400 errors with Dedicated Gateways

At the time of writing this article Pinata has updated to the latest version of IPFS. In this version there is an exception thrown when requesting content with an invalid Accept header mime type.

For example, if you have this type of request:

const axios = require('axios')

const incorrectHeader = async () => {
  try {
    const res = await axios.get('https://somegateway.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmeSjSinHpPnmXmspMjwiXyN6zS4E9zccariGR3jxcaWtq/8803', {
      headers: {
        'Accept': 'application/json, text/plain'
      }
    })
    console.log("Correct Header Status:", res.data)
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error)
  }
}

incorrectHeader()

This will not work because the Accept header is not properly formatted for multiple types. There are other errors that have been proved to the IPFS team which we have reported and they are looking into it. In the meantime we would recommend using 'Accept':'text/plain'

const axios = require('axios')

const correctHeader = async () => {
  try {
    const res = await axios.get('https://somegateway.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmeSjSinHpPnmXmspMjwiXyN6zS4E9zccariGR3jxcaWtq/8803', {
      headers: {
        'Accept': 'text/plain'
      }
    })
    console.log("Correct Header Status:", res.data)
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error)
  }
}

correctHeader()

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