From b7113a8e47899803a02cd473d8664df92008dcce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pascal Precht <pascal.precht@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 14:44:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(files): ensure throw meaningful error for unsupported
 encoding in `cat()`

A test to verify this is available at https://github.com/ipfs/interface-ipfs-core/pull/330 and needs to be merged first.

Fixes #799

License: MIT
Signed-off-by: Pascal Precht pascal.precht@gmail.com
---
 src/files/cat.js | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/files/cat.js b/src/files/cat.js
index ff468eb34..e4aa57632 100644
--- a/src/files/cat.js
+++ b/src/files/cat.js
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 const promisify = require('promisify-es6')
 const cleanCID = require('../utils/clean-cid')
-const v = require('is-ipfs')
 const bl = require('bl')
 
 module.exports = (send) => {
@@ -13,11 +12,9 @@ module.exports = (send) => {
     }
 
     try {
-      hash = cleanCID(hash)
+      hash = typeof hash === 'string' ? hash : cleanCID(hash)
     } catch (err) {
-      if (!v.ipfsPath(hash)) {
-        return callback(err)
-      }
+      return callback(err)
     }
 
     const query = {