5c3eaf9983043db1b61a98c95d692a6958670b86 doc: Add warnings for http interfaces limitations (Fabian Jahr)
Pull request description:
`libevent`, which is used for our rest interface, can use up all of the available file descriptors in a system if too many connections are opened at once. If a new block is connected at the same time and can not be written to disk because there are no file descriptors available, the node crashes. Based on my investigation so far the issue is best solved upstream which means we have to wait for the next release (2.2). In the meantime it would be good if we would warn users of this limitation.
See #11368 for more background.
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ff6549c3c84ca7324032dbc37744645bf2fe1c3e fix: update rest info on block size and json (Chris Abrams)
Pull request description:
Addressing the ambiguous block size text in rest docs: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/18703
Also makes sure to let developers know there is `.json` option for the rest output format.
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42ff30ec6 [Docs] add short documentation for /rest/blockhashbyheight (Jonas Schnelli)
579d418f7 [QA] add rest tests for /rest/blockhashbyheight/<HEIGHT>.<FORMAT> (Jonas Schnelli)
eb9ef04c4 REST: add "blockhashbyheight" call, fetch blockhash by height (Jonas Schnelli)
Pull request description:
Completes the REST interface for trivial block exploring by adding a call that allows to fetch the blockhash in the main chain by a given height.
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7cf994d5cfd53dcff76ebd0e0007e3477a7570e8 qa: Improve tests of /rest/headers and /rest/block (João Barbosa)
0825b86b280c684c32c60bac9e862298c7279f27 doc: /rest/block responds with 404 if block does not exist (João Barbosa)
be625f7c5562afed517ff51d2d85268ba5ce6017 doc: Explain empty result of /rest/headers (João Barbosa)
Pull request description:
Follow up of #15107.
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* Doc: fix broken formatting in markdown #headers
Insert a space in markdown headers between the #'s and the header text.
(It appears that the space is required since a github update a year ago
https://github.com/blog/2100-github-pages-now-faster-and-simpler-with-jekyll-3-0)
* Update REST-interface.md
* Update guide-startmany.md
* Update instantsend.md
* Update keepass.md
* Update release-process.md
It is unreasonable to ask to change the global package configuration
just to build a package. Not only that, this is potentially harmful to the system.
Also do a few punctuation fixes in REST-interface.md.
