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* [Bitcoin-development] HTTP REST API for bitcoind
@ 2013-07-22 19:42 Jeff Garzik
  2013-07-22 22:06 ` Michael Hendricks
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2013-07-22 19:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bitcoin Dev

URL: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2844

Adding an HTTP REST API for bitcoind has been occasionally tossed
about as a useful thing.  Such an API would essentially provide a
decentralized block explorer capability, enabling easy external access
to transaction/address/block indices that we maintain.

The first two implemented API calls are simple, returning a block or
TX given a simple query string based on block hash, e.g.

     GET /rest/tx/TX-HASH
or
     GET /rest/block/BLOCK-HASH

This can be easily accessed via command line cURL/wget utilities.
Output formats -- binary, hex or json -- may be selected via a
"bitcoin-format" header.

The general goal of the HTTP REST interface is to access
unauthenticated, public blockchain information.  There is no plan to
add wallet interfacing/manipulation via this API.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
Senior Software Engineer and open source evangelist
BitPay, Inc.      https://bitpay.com/



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2013-07-22 22:06 ` Michael Hendricks
2013-07-23  8:27 ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-07-23  8:45   ` Michael Gronager
2013-07-23  9:37   ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23  9:53     ` Michael Gronager
2013-07-23 10:17     ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-07-23 10:27       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23  9:30 ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23  9:42   ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23  9:52     ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23  9:56       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23 10:02         ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23 10:06           ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23  9:47   ` Peter Todd
2013-07-23 10:00     ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23 10:17       ` Peter Todd
2013-07-23 11:45         ` Andy Parkins
2013-07-23 10:19       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23 10:29     ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-07-23 10:36       ` Pieter Wuille
2013-07-23 15:48         ` Michael Hendricks
2013-07-23 19:36       ` Mark Friedenbach
2013-08-10 20:30         ` Rune Kjær Svendsen

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