And then the problem of what domain name to use - ideally a single name would be used so caches had the maximum chance to reuse content. To keep the network distributed perhaps the existing DNS seed mechanism could be used - a few names, each serving a random bitcoind's address. Put :8333 after the name, and enhance bitcoind to respond to HTTP and p2p caching would be used!
Simon On Tue 30 Apr 2013 12:27:10 PM PDT, Andy Parkins wrote: > On Tuesday 30 April 2013 19:04:59 Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> The format currently used by bitcoind would be just fine -- >> blocks/blkNNNN.dat for raw data, size-limited well below 1GB. Just >> need to add a small metadata download, and serve the raw block files. > > That doesn't seem very generic. It's tied far too much to the current storage > format of bitcoind. > > Wouldn't it be better to add support for more bitcoin-protocol-oriented HTTP > requests? Then any client can supply the same interface, rather than being > forced to create blkNNNN.dat on the fly? > > http://bitcoind.example.com/block/BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB > http://bitcoind.example.com/tx/TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT > http://bitcoind.example.com/block/oftx/TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT > http://bitcoind.example.com/peers > http://bitcoind.example.com/peer/nnn > > Essentially: block explorer's raw mode but in every bitcoind. The hardest > operation for light clients is finding out the block that contains a > particular transaction -- something that bitcoind already knows. > > I'd like to see support for HTTP POST/PUT of signed transactions and block > announcements too. > > > > Andy > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
