Starting with Tor version 0.2.7.1 it is possible, through Tor's control socket
API, to create and destroy 'ephemeral' hidden services programmatically.
https://stem.torproject.org/api/control.html#stem.control.Controller.create_ephemeral_hidden_service
This means that if Tor is running (and proper authorization is available),
bitcoin automatically creates a hidden service to listen on, without user
manual configuration. This will positively affect the number of available
.onion nodes.
- When the node is started, connect to Tor through control socket
- Send `ADD_ONION` command
- First time:
- Make it create a hidden service key
- Save the key in the data directory for later usage
- Make it redirect port 8333 to the local port 8333 (or whatever port we're listening on).
- Keep control socket connection open for as long node is running. The hidden service will
(by default) automatically go away when the connection is closed.
6342a48 Init: Use DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_MINFEE in help message (MarcoFalke)
a9c73a1 [wallet] Add comments for doxygen (MarcoFalke)
6b0e622 [wallet] Refactor to use new MIN_CHANGE (MarcoFalke)
a6efc01 Bugfix: Omit wallet-related options from -help when wallet is disabled (Luke Dashjr)
5f9260f Bugfix: If genproclimit is omitted to RPC setgenerate, don't change it; also show correct default in getmininginfo (Luke Dashjr)
420a82f Bugfix: Describe dblogsize option correctly (it refers to the wallet database, not memory pool) (Luke Dashjr)
caa3d42 Bugfix: RPC: blockchain: Display correct defaults in help for verifychain method (Luke Dashjr)
Moves the call Initialize() from init.cpp to CreateWithArguments() and handles the
return value. Moves the call Shutdown() from init.cpp to destructor.
Changes Initialize() and Shutdown() to protected members.
* -maxuploadtarget can be set in MiB
* if <limit> - ( time-left-in-24h-cycle / 600 * MAX_BLOCK_SIZE ) has reach, stop serve blocks older than one week and filtered blocks
* no action if limit has reached, no guarantee that the target will not be surpassed
* add outbound limit informations to rpc getnettotals
After each transaction which is added to mempool, we first call
Expire() to remove old transactions, then throwing away the
lowest-feerate transactions.
After throwing away transactions by feerate, we set the minimum
relay fee to the maximum fee transaction-and-dependant-set we
removed, plus the default minimum relay fee.
After the next block is received, the minimum relay fee is allowed
to decrease exponentially. Its halflife defaults to 12 hours, but
is decreased to 6 hours if the mempool is smaller than half its
maximum size, and 3 hours if the mempool is smaller than a quarter
its maximum size.
The minimum -maxmempool size is 40*-limitdescendantsize, as it is
easy for an attacker to play games with the cheapest
-limitdescendantsize transactions. -maxmempool defaults to 300MB.
This disables high-priority transaction relay when the min relay
fee adjustment is >0 (ie when the mempool is full). When the relay
fee adjustment drops below the default minimum relay fee / 2 it is
set to 0 (re-enabling priority-based free relay).
(note the 9x multiplier on (void*)'s for CTxMemPool::DynamicMemoryUsage
was accidentally introduced in 5add7a7 but should have waited for this
commit which adds the extra index)
ddf98d1 Make RPC tests cope with server-side timeout between requests (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
2190ea6 rpc: Split option -rpctimeout into -rpcservertimeout and -rpcclienttimeout (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
8b2d6ed http: Disable libevent debug logging, if not explicitly enabled (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
5ce43da init: Ignore SIGPIPE (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
The two timeouts for the server and client, are essentially different:
- In the case of the server it should be a lower value to avoid clients
clogging up connection slots
- In the case of the client it should be a high value to accomedate slow
responses from the server, for example for slow queries or when the
lock is contended
Split the options into `-rpcservertimeout` and `-rpcclienttimeout` with
respective defaults of 30 and 900.
Associate with each CTxMemPoolEntry all the size/fees of descendant
mempool transactions. Sort mempool by max(feerate of entry, feerate
of descendants). Update statistics on-the-fly as transactions enter
or leave the mempool.
Also add ancestor and descendant limiting, so that transactions can
be rejected if the number or size of unconfirmed ancestors exceeds
a target, or if adding a transaction would cause some other mempool
entry to have too many (or too large) a set of unconfirmed in-
mempool descendants.
Ignore SIGPIPE on all non-win32 OSes, otherwise an unexpectedly disconnecting
RPC client will terminate the application. This problem was introduced
with the libhttp-based RPC server.
Fixes#6660.
Continues Johnathan Corgan's work.
Publishing multipart messages
Bugfix: Add missing zmq header includes
Bugfix: Adjust build system to link ZeroMQ code for Qt binaries
Lets nodes advertise that they offer bloom filter support explicitly.
The protocol version bump allows SPV nodes to assume that NODE_BLOOM is
set if NODE_NETWORK is set for pre-70011 nodes.
Also adds an option to turn bloom filter support off for nodes which
advertise a version number >= 70011. Nodes attempting to use bloom
filters on such protocol versions are banned, and a later upgade
should drop nodes of an older version which attempt to use bloom
filters.
Much code stolen from Peter Todd.
Implements BIP 111
d528025 Revert "rpc-tests: re-enable rpc-tests for Windows" (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
1e700c9 doc: update deps in build-unix.md after libevent (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
26c9b83 Move windows socket init to utility function (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
4be0b08 libevent: Windows reuseaddr workaround in depends (Cory Fields)
3a174cd Fix race condition between starting HTTP server thread and setting EventBase() (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6d2bc22 Document options for new HTTP/RPC server in --help (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
be33f3f Implement RPCTimerHandler for Qt RPC console (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
57d85d9 doc: mention SSL support dropped for RPC in release notes (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
40b556d evhttpd implementation (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
ee2a42b tests: GET requests cannot have request body, use POST in rest.py (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
6e996d3 tests: fix qt payment test (Cory Fields)
3140ef9 build: build-system changes for libevent (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
a9af234 libevent: add depends (Cory Fields)
6a21dd5 Remove rpc_boostasiotocnetaddr test (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
8f9301c qa: Remove -rpckeepalive tests from httpbasics (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
51fcfc0 doc: remove documentation for rpcssl (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Split StartHTTPServer into InitHTTPServer and StartHTTPServer to give
clients a window to register their handlers without race conditions.
Thanks @ajweiss for figuring this out.
- *Replace usage of boost::asio with [libevent2](http://libevent.org/)*.
boost::asio is not part of C++11, so unlike other boost there is no
forwards-compatibility reason to stick with it. Together with #4738 (convert
json_spirit to UniValue), this rids Bitcoin Core of the worst offenders with
regard to compile-time slowness.
- *Replace spit-and-duct-tape http server with evhttp*. Front-end http handling
is handled by libevent, a work queue (with configurable depth and parallelism)
is used to handle application requests.
- *Wrap HTTP request in C++ class*; this makes the application code mostly
HTTP-server-neutral
- *Refactor RPC to move all http-specific code to a separate file*.
Theoreticaly this can allow building without HTTP server but with another RPC
backend, e.g. Qt's debug console (currently not implemented) or future RPC
mechanisms people may want to use.
- *HTTP dispatch mechanism*; services (e.g., RPC, REST) register which URL
paths they want to handle.
By using a proven, high-performance asynchronous networking library (also used
by Tor) and HTTP server, problems such as #5674, #5655, #344 should be avoided.
What works? bitcoind, bitcoin-cli, bitcoin-qt. Unit tests and RPC/REST tests
pass. The aim for now is everything but SSL support.
Configuration options:
- `-rpcthreads`: repurposed as "number of work handler threads". Still
defaults to 4.
- `-rpcworkqueue`: maximum depth of work queue. When this is reached, new
requests will return a 500 Internal Error.
- `-rpctimeout`: inactivity time, in seconds, after which to disconnect a
client.
- `-debug=http`: low-level http activity logging
Move mempool rejections to debug category `mempoolrej`, to make it possible
to show them without enabling the entire category `mempool` which is
high volume.
7b79cbd limit total length of user agent comments (Pavol Rusnak)
557f8ea implement uacomment config parameter which can add comments to user agent as per BIP-0014 (Pavol Rusnak)