lbcd/doc.go
Tibor Bősze 6b8a24918e rpcserver: Improve JSON-RPC compatibility
Avoid compatibility issues with software that relies on the behavior of
bitcoind's JSON-RPC implementation.

The JSON-RPC 1.0 spec defines that notifications must have their "id"
set to null and states that notifications do not have a response.

A JSON-RPC 2.0 notification is a request with "json-rpc":"2.0", and
without an "id" member. The specification states that notifications
must not be responded to. JSON-RPC 2.0 permits the null value as a
valid request id, therefore such requests are not notifications.

Bitcoin Core serves requests with "id":null or even an absent "id", and
responds to such requests with "id":null in the response.

Btcd does not respond to any request without and "id" or with "id":null,
regardless the indicated JSON-RPC protocol version.

In order to avoid compatibility issues with software relying on
Core's behavior, this commit implements "quirks mode" as follows:
 - quirks mode can be enabled via configuration (disabled by default)
 - If no JSON-RPC version is indicated in the request, accept and
respond to request with "id":null
 - If no JSON-RPC version is indicated in the request, accept and
respond to requests without an "id" member
 - In both cases above, use "id":null in the response
 - Do not respond to request without an "id" or with "id":null when
JSON-RPC version is indicated in the request (process as notification)
2016-10-24 13:24:18 -05:00

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// Copyright (c) 2013-2016 The btcsuite developers
// Use of this source code is governed by an ISC
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
/*
btcd is a full-node bitcoin implementation written in Go.
The default options are sane for most users. This means btcd will work 'out of
the box' for most users. However, there are also a wide variety of flags that
can be used to control it.
The following section provides a usage overview which enumerates the flags. An
interesting point to note is that the long form of all of these options
(except -C) can be specified in a configuration file that is automatically
parsed when btcd starts up. By default, the configuration file is located at
~/.btcd/btcd.conf on POSIX-style operating systems and %LOCALAPPDATA%\btcd\btcd.conf
on Windows. The -C (--configfile) flag, as shown below, can be used to override
this location.
Usage:
btcd [OPTIONS]
Application Options:
-V, --version Display version information and exit
-C, --configfile= Path to configuration file
-b, --datadir= Directory to store data
--logdir= Directory to log output.
-a, --addpeer= Add a peer to connect with at startup
--connect= Connect only to the specified peers at startup
--nolisten Disable listening for incoming connections -- NOTE:
Listening is automatically disabled if the --connect
or --proxy options are used without also specifying
listen interfaces via --listen
--listen= Add an interface/port to listen for connections
(default all interfaces port: 8333, testnet: 18333)
--maxpeers= Max number of inbound and outbound peers (125)
--nobanning Disable banning of misbehaving peers
--banthreshold= Maximum allowed ban score before disconnecting and
banning misbehaving peers.
--banduration= How long to ban misbehaving peers. Valid time units
are {s, m, h}. Minimum 1 second (24h0m0s)
-u, --rpcuser= Username for RPC connections
-P, --rpcpass= Password for RPC connections
--rpclimituser= Username for limited RPC connections
--rpclimitpass= Password for limited RPC connections
--rpclisten= Add an interface/port to listen for RPC connections
(default port: 8334, testnet: 18334)
--rpccert= File containing the certificate file
--rpckey= File containing the certificate key
--rpcmaxclients= Max number of RPC clients for standard connections
(10)
--rpcmaxwebsockets= Max number of RPC websocket connections (25)
--rpcquirks Mirror some JSON-RPC quirks of Bitcoin Core -- NOTE:
Discouraged unless interoperability issues need to
be worked around
--norpc Disable built-in RPC server -- NOTE: The RPC server
is disabled by default if no rpcuser/rpcpass or
rpclimituser/rpclimitpass is specified
--notls Disable TLS for the RPC server -- NOTE: This is only
allowed if the RPC server is bound to localhost
--nodnsseed Disable DNS seeding for peers
--externalip= Add an ip to the list of local addresses we claim to
listen on to peers
--proxy= Connect via SOCKS5 proxy (eg. 127.0.0.1:9050)
--proxyuser= Username for proxy server
--proxypass= Password for proxy server
--onion= Connect to tor hidden services via SOCKS5 proxy
(eg. 127.0.0.1:9050)
--onionuser= Username for onion proxy server
--onionpass= Password for onion proxy server
--noonion Disable connecting to tor hidden services
--torisolation Enable Tor stream isolation by randomizing user
credentials for each connection.
--testnet Use the test network
--regtest Use the regression test network
--simnet Use the simulation test network
--nocheckpoints Disable built-in checkpoints. Don't do this unless
you know what you're doing.
--dbtype= Database backend to use for the Block Chain (ffldb)
--profile= Enable HTTP profiling on given port -- NOTE port
must be between 1024 and 65536
--cpuprofile= Write CPU profile to the specified file
-d, --debuglevel= Logging level for all subsystems {trace, debug,
info, warn, error, critical} -- You may also specify
<subsystem>=<level>,<subsystem2>=<level>,... to set
the log level for individual subsystems -- Use show
to list available subsystems (info)
--upnp Use UPnP to map our listening port outside of NAT
--minrelaytxfee= The minimum transaction fee in BTC/kB to be
considered a non-zero fee.
--limitfreerelay= Limit relay of transactions with no transaction fee
to the given amount in thousands of bytes per
minute (15)
--norelaypriority Do not require free or low-fee transactions to have
high priority for relaying
--maxorphantx= Max number of orphan transactions to keep in memory
(1000)
--generate Generate (mine) bitcoins using the CPU
--miningaddr= Add the specified payment address to the list of
addresses to use for generated blocks -- At least
one address is required if the generate option is
set
--blockminsize= Mininum block size in bytes to be used when creating
a block
--blockmaxsize= Maximum block size in bytes to be used when creating
a block (750000)
--blockprioritysize= Size in bytes for high-priority/low-fee transactions
when creating a block (50000)
--getworkkey= DEPRECATED -- Use the --miningaddr option instead
--nopeerbloomfilters Disable bloom filtering support.
--sigcachemaxsize= The maximum number of entries in the signature
verification cache.
--blocksonly Do not accept transactions from remote peers.
--relaynonstd Relay non-standard transactions regardless of the
default settings for the active network.
--rejectnonstd Reject non-standard transactions regardless of the
default settings for the active network.
Help Options:
-h, --help Show this help message
*/
package main