From: Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix•org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] HTTP REST API for bitcoind
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 16:06:15 -0600 [thread overview]
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+1 and thank you. I've prototyped a couple different Bitcoin projects that
would benefit from this.
I'm traveling with poor 'net so I haven't read the patches yet. I echo pull
request comments about using Accept and Accept-Encoding headers. Same for
an API version number in the URL.
It'd be helpful, eventually, to have APIs corresponding to Bitcoin addr and
version messages. Metadata about the network and the peer, respectively,
are valuable in my use cases.
Michael
On Jul 22, 2013 1:43 PM, "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@bitpay•com> wrote:
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-22 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-22 19:42 Jeff Garzik
2013-07-22 22:06 ` Michael Hendricks [this message]
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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