RPC on by default #167

issue weavejester opened this issue on April 18, 2011

weavejester commented at 9:03 PM on April 18, 2011: none
I think RPC access is important enough that it should be enabled by default. This would allow greater integration with other applications.

For instance, we could support Bitcoin URIs (issue #14) by having a bitcoin openuri command that would open the "Send Coins" dialog box with the address and amount pre-populated.

I therefore propose the a small changes:
- The -server flag is deprecated and the server config option is considered on (1) by default.
- A -noserver flag added to explicitly turn off the RPC server at the command line.
- If there is an rpcpassword field in the bitcoin.conf file, that password is used.
- Otherwise, a random password is generated on startup, and placed in a file called bitcoin.password (user readable only).
If people think this is a good idea, I can put together a patch for this.
weavejester commented at 2:19 AM on April 19, 2011: none

Closing. Should have discussed this on forum first.
weavejester closed this on Apr 19, 2011
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