通过https访问比特币节点

Question

i have my own bitcoin testnet node over https link and when i wanna ping it via curl

curl https://link_to node/ I have a response like

JSONRPC server handles only POST requests 

so it's mean that I can connect to the node and send requests to it, so I wanna connect to it via nodejs and bitcoin-core. and I wanna init bitcoin object like

const bitcoin = require('bitcoin-core');
    let client = new bitcoin({
        network: 'testnet', 
        username: 'user', 
        password: 'password', 
        host: 'https://link_to_node/',
        timeout: 30000,
        port: 443
    });

    client.upTime((err, res) => {console.log(err, ' and ', res);})</i>

here I connected to the node and send a request about uptime of it and receive a response like

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND https https:80 at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:57:26) errno: 'ENOTFOUND', code: 'ENOTFOUND', syscall: 'getaddrinfo', hostname: 'https', host: 'https', port: 80 }, isOperational: true, errno: 'ENOTFOUND', code: 'ENOTFOUND', syscall: 'getaddrinfo', hostname: 'https', host: 'https', port: 80 }

So how I can connect to bitcoin node via https and bitcoin-core?

Answer 1

Bitcoin Core's JSON RPC API does not support HTTPS. However you can make it (on the server) only accessible through localhost ( rpcallowip=127.0.0.1 ). Tehn you could write a wrapper (PHP for example) and run this through an HTTPS web server.