From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B831C09 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:02:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from hera.mpi-klsb.mpg.de (hera.mpi-klsb.mpg.de [139.19.1.49]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E97F147 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:02:54 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mmci.uni-saarland.de; s=mail200803; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Mime-Version:Content-Type:References:In-Reply-To:Date:To:From:Subject:Message-ID; bh=XOynV+nxqnVydtmT5NdjnigI92GhsqnnEBAw2BZ2iK8=; b=f6JTcmpTklk/HN0oUmNwWvcMeKZpKWGSf3ayHzRRnyziDPAYKw+ZVZBJQ/W7NvC9I9LqkZJJV0eNOxDsx9wKzEQux+KLrsbuW+HQYmI3y3NvoZHiWysfLqqplTVTdemj5VV2CDsyDoa40B2IZ+lMmavfhNvQDzponnaTnsaW2Ek=; Received: from sam.mpi-klsb.mpg.de ([139.19.86.26]:57210) by hera.mpi-klsb.mpg.de (envelope-from ) with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.80) id 1cl0iQ-0008Cu-AO; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:02:52 +0100 Received: from [192.31.0.5] (port=57642 helo=[192.168.25.175]) by sam.mpi-klsb.mpg.de (envelope-from ) with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) id 1cl0iP-00085x-Q0; Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:02:50 +0100 Message-ID: <1488837773.2134.3.camel@mmci.uni-saarland.de> From: Tim Ruffing To: Tim Ruffing , Bitcoin Protocol Discussion Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 17:02:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1488837256.2134.1.camel@mmci.uni-saarland.de> References: <201703040827.33798.luke@dashjr.org> <1488778644.2205.1.camel@mmci.uni-saarland.de> <201703060709.40311.luke@dashjr.org> <1488837256.2134.1.camel@mmci.uni-saarland.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MPI-Local-Sender: true X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Currency/exchange rate information API X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Protocol Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:02:54 -0000 On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 16:54 -0500, Tim Ruffing via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > > Pushing is what longpolling does. > > > > That makes a lot of sense, yes. > Forgot one thing: For longpolling, maybe we would like to have the possibility to request some periodic message from the server. Otherwise clients cannot distinguish between the situations 1. "value is still in the requested bounds (minrate, maxrate)" and 2. "connection has dropped". So the user may take a wrong decision because he assumed that the value is still in bounds holds but actually the server has died. Tim