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| author | Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> | 2014-02-26 15:07:33 -0500 |
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| committer | Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> | 2014-02-28 15:23:50 -0500 |
| commit | 260cf5c0a4754be39b05f6a247b8a354de7eced6 (patch) | |
| tree | 4ac8e483e10c45005af2b853b1b243cf0f2705fa /README | |
| parent | 829f82226795f1306de87cfbd53544509d75b406 (diff) | |
| download | bitcoin-260cf5c0a4754be39b05f6a247b8a354de7eced6.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9edd5a2121 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +AuthServiceProxy is an improved version of python-jsonrpc. + +It includes the following generic improvements: + +- HTTP connections persist for the life of the AuthServiceProxy object +- sends protocol 'version', per JSON-RPC 1.1 +- sends proper, incrementing 'id' +- uses standard Python json lib + +It also includes the following bitcoin-specific details: + +- sends Basic HTTP authentication headers +- parses all JSON numbers that look like floats as Decimal + +Installation: + +- change the first line of setup.py to point to the directory of your installation of python 2.* +- run setup.py + +Note: This will only install bitcoinrpc. If you also want to install jsonrpc to preserve +backwards compatibility, you have to replace 'bitcoinrpc' with 'jsonrpc' in setup.py and run it again. |