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ECIP-1031: Recursive Length Prefix Media Type #74

Closed sorpaas closed 6 years ago

sorpaas commented 6 years ago

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Abstract

Recursive Length Prefix (see Yellow Paper Appendix B) is the data type used for all common Ethereum Classic structures including blocks, raw transactions, receipts and accounts. Defining a media type for Recursive Length Prefix (RLP) would allow a RESTful HTTP server to return raw RLP information directly.

sorpaas commented 6 years ago

I managed to get application/vnd.ecip.rlp registered in IANA's Media Types database. See https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml

So now this media type can be used without worrying about conflicts, I would suggest to merge this.

pyskell commented 6 years ago

I'm fine with this since it simply allows clients to return RLP data but does not define a structure.

That being said a standard structure/endpoints for RESTful HTTP data from a client should be defined in another ECIP and may be best finalized in tandem with this ECIP to help avoid client software creating different implementations.

RorschachRev commented 6 years ago

Making RLP a media type sounds fine. I am guessing that the code in this case would be RPC and IPC requests for RLP data would have an additional return type: the media header wrapped around the RLP.

sorpaas commented 6 years ago

See comment https://github.com/ethereumproject/ECIPs/pull/82#issuecomment-346282918