From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr•org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] getmemorypool BIP process
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 10:00:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203031000.28760.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F52294C.8080409@justmoon.de>
On Saturday, March 03, 2012 9:23:08 AM Stefan Thomas wrote:
> From what I understand the BIP uses a polling model, e.g. a miner would
> use getmemorypool to request new work from a pool in intervals. Would it
> make sense to specify a version of the API supporting long polling?
You mean explicitly mention the getwork longpoll protocol as part of the
getmemorypool BIP? Probably a good idea.
> For BitcoinJS specifically, since we also support JSON-RPC over TCP, I'd
> even be interested in a genuine "push" API. Something like C->S
> "listenmemorypool", S->C "updatememorypool" (continually).
HTTP and JSON-RPC are a client-server model; there is no way for the server to
make calls to the client. It's not practical to expect clients to run their
own JSON-RPC server - many cannot listen on WAN ports at all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-03 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 22:06 Luke-Jr
2012-03-03 14:23 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-03-03 15:00 ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2012-03-03 17:08 ` Michael Grønager
2012-03-04 0:18 ` Stefan Thomas
2012-03-03 23:51 ` Geir Harald Hansen
2012-03-04 1:04 ` Luke-Jr
2012-03-04 17:49 ` Geir Harald Hansen
2012-03-03 15:44 Luke-Jr
2012-03-04 0:18 ` Stefan Thomas
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