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A lightweight ethereum block explorer
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can I use to allow anyone explore my own testnet chain? #9

Closed maximilianh closed 8 years ago

maximilianh commented 8 years ago

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems that opening the RPC to all the internet is not such a good idea... can I use etherparty to allow anyone to browse my own testnet? Or do I need a different software for that...?

whitj00 commented 8 years ago

and yes, you can use this to browse any chain using ethereums api

whitj00 commented 8 years ago

This is meant to be a client side application. The geth command that is given only opens up RPC access to only this website (though this is not very secure, you shouldn’t unlock your account when you enable RPC to the public)

On May 12, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Maximilian Haeussler <notifications@github.com mailto:notifications@github.com> wrote:

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems that opening the RPC to all the internet is not such a good idea... can I use etherparty to allow anyone to browser my own testnet? Or do I need a different software for that...?

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maximilianh commented 8 years ago

I'll try it. Thanks for your quick reply!

It seems this is the only open-source block chain browser. As you know, for all people that run private testnets, something like etherscan.io, any blockchain browser, is very useful for debugging. I'm surprised there are not more tools like this one...