From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>
To: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] HTTP REST API for bitcoind
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:42:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130723094204.GB6385@vps7135.xlshosting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201307231030.14139.andyparkins@gmail.com>
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:30:13AM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:
> One additional URL makes this pretty much perfect:
>
> GET /rest/block-with-tx/TX-HASH
>
> Construction of the transaction-hash-to-block database is something the full
> client's have to do anyway, so this query is no harder than the others for
> them to supply; but suddenly makes it possible for an SPV client to trace the
> providence of any transaction without needing to maintain the entire chain.
There is actually no such index being maintained by default, and doing so is an
unnecessary burden IMHO (you need to enable -txindex since 0.8 to get this).
Of course, if enabled, it can be exposed.
--
Pieter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-23 9:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-22 19:42 [Bitcoin-development] HTTP REST API for bitcoind Jeff Garzik
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 [this message]
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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