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Direct upload

Deferred and Direct Uploads​

By default your bee instance will handle uploads in a deferred manner, meaning that the data will be completely uploaded to your node locally before being then being uploaded to the Swarm network.

In contrast, for a direct upload, the data will be completely uploaded to the Swarm network directly.

If you want to upload directly to the network you have to set the swarm-deferred-upload header value to "false" in your request.

curl \
    -X POST \
    -H "swarm-deferred-upload: false" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/x-tar" \
    -H "swarm-postage-batch-id: 78a26be9b42317fe6f0cbea3e47cbd0cf34f533db4e9c91cf92be40eb2968264" \
    --data-binary @my_data.tar http://localhost:1633/bzz