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Feature request: BTC RPC Explorer #1

Closed wanxewoj closed 6 years ago

wanxewoj commented 6 years ago

It would be awesome if zHIVErbox shiped with BTC RPC Explorer or at least an installer for it.

zciendor commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the hint about btc-rpc-explorer. It wasn't straightforward to build an installer for zHIVErbox, because the Nodejs package manager npm doesn't support Socks5 proxy protocol. Therefore we first had to add an intermediary HTTP proxy polipo to zHIVErbox, which forwards the traffic to the Tor Socks5 proxy and configure npm to always use polipo. The nice result is, that we have a generic solution now for all nodejs-based applications.

However, we didn't implement btc-rpc-explorer as a system service (daemon) which is running all the time, but as an on-demand application instead which is accessed via SSH TCP Port Forwarding. This way we don't add an additional attack vector to zHIVErbox by exposing btc-rpc-explorer to everybody.