Where’s Sodium testnet folks? yeah I know I can run locally and all but still I want to test and play on real net, a testnet first. Any plans for that? Basically every single other project in this space has a testnet… I mean I understand you are special… But still where’s the Sodium testnet? …

Hi ovi At the moment you can deploy to Sodium from dfx using the --network=ic flag, the quickstart guide will walk you through it here: https://sdk.dfinity.org/docs/quickstart/network-quickstart.html

thank you Ori. it was not easy to figure this out. Sodium testnet is nowhere mentioned in the documentation… now, how do I create an identity/account on the Sodium testnet? if this is possible then it is pretty well hidden in the documentation somewhere. thank you for your support

Thanks ovi, maybe that could be revised ( @lsgunn ). dfx will create an identity for you, you can find it in ~/.config/dfx/identity/ and manage it with the dfx identity command.

beautiful, thank you. is it possible to make an http/s request from a canister outside of ICP realm? to let’s say any API endpoint deployed on the web2.0?

awesome sample, thank you! but what I take from here is that there will be natively a way to make http/s (and tcp/upd) connections from a canister to a web2.0 API (hosted outside of ICP universe), right? do you have a timeline for this?

I can check the current balance when I see dfx canister --network=ic call <WALLET-CANISTER-ID> cycle_balance in Deploying on the Internet Computer, but I don’t know how to get my <WALLET-CANISTER-ID>, or where can I see <WALLET-CANISTER-ID>?

Hi ovi, You are correct that there’s no mention of Sodium or testnet in the documentation. Unfortunately, our onboarding information implies that “Sodium” is the name of the pre-alpha version of the Internet Computer that runs on a decentralized network (rather than locally). That is a little misle…

thank you for the elaborate answer! very much appreciated. I’ll see when I get the time to play more with ICP, if I have more feedback I will get back here.

here’s a few more questions if you can answer please when it will be possible to make requests (http, ftp, upd) from a canister outside of the ICP realm (to services which are not installed/running in ICP) how can I estimate how much ICP I need to run a service, are there tools that can help with …

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dpdp December 22, 2020, 8:55pm 6

Not natively; you will need to have some sort of oracles for now; I’ve built a simple one that would send emails through a nodejs-based oracle (to sendgrid): How to do API calls? - #8 by dpdp

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