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-rw-r--r--src/bitcoinrpc.cpp12
-rw-r--r--src/init.cpp1
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp b/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp
index 9d45779b2c..a1e7d14dcc 100644
--- a/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp
+++ b/src/bitcoinrpc.cpp
@@ -1122,8 +1122,16 @@ Object CallRPC(const string& strMethod, const Array& params)
asio::ssl::stream<asio::ip::tcp::socket> sslStream(io_service, context);
SSLIOStreamDevice<asio::ip::tcp> d(sslStream, fUseSSL);
iostreams::stream< SSLIOStreamDevice<asio::ip::tcp> > stream(d);
- if (!d.connect(GetArg("-rpcconnect", "127.0.0.1"), GetArg("-rpcport", itostr(Params().RPCPort()))))
- throw runtime_error("couldn't connect to server");
+
+ bool fWait = GetBoolArg("-rpcwait", false); // -rpcwait means try until server has started
+ do {
+ bool fConnected = d.connect(GetArg("-rpcconnect", "127.0.0.1"), GetArg("-rpcport", itostr(Params().RPCPort())));
+ if (fConnected) break;
+ if (fWait)
+ MilliSleep(1000);
+ else
+ throw runtime_error("couldn't connect to server");
+ } while (fWait);
// HTTP basic authentication
string strUserPass64 = EncodeBase64(mapArgs["-rpcuser"] + ":" + mapArgs["-rpcpassword"]);
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index d930f6f693..b2e7ddf335 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ std::string HelpMessage(HelpMessageMode hmm)
if (hmm == HMM_BITCOIND || hmm == HMM_BITCOIN_CLI)
{
strUsage += " -rpcconnect=<ip> " + _("Send commands to node running on <ip> (default: 127.0.0.1)") + "\n";
+ strUsage += " -rpcwait " + _("Wait for RPC server to start") + "\n";
}
strUsage += " -rpcuser=<user> " + _("Username for JSON-RPC connections") + "\n";