cashexplorer.bitcoin.com was taken down, replace with api.bitcore.io?

[pybitcash]

cashexplorer.bitcoin.com was taken down, replace with api.bitcore.io?

[merc1er]

I don't thing cashexplorer.bitcoin.com was ever a thing (it's explorer.bitcoin.com).
But now the API is located at rest.bitcoin.com.

I added bitcore support in #46. I would like implement rest.bitcoin.com support for redundancy :)

Looks like this API blocks Tor users so does cause issues that way.

[merc1er]

This issue should be fixed by #47

Looks like this API blocks Tor users so does cause issues that way.

Both rest.bitcoin.com and api.bitcore.io work for me on Tor Browser. Are you still experiencing this issue?

Ok, off topic:

urllib3.connectionpool: DEBUG: Starting new HTTPS connection (1): trest.bitcoin.com:443
urllib3.connectionpool: DEBUG: https://trest.bitcoin.com:443 "GET /v2//rawtransactions/sendRawTransaction/01000000016450c5c7fb706f5c0cdf1b3fbb1d98b66f8d049770c61fd8763c8e8cda712b83010000006a4730440220528f7ac6565916f1ad2e4e8e8f453efa47afa349203b08a2de0e9af78d19229802202a4a00cdda40c4dfbe03ee9208ea0f6b2898a4271013e6a014c4902fa50461e64121033d5c2875c9bd116875a71a5db64cffcb13396b163d039b1d9327824891804334ffffffff02d0070000000000001976a914e7c1345fc8f87c68170b3aa798a956c2fe6a9eff88ac64621b00000000001976a914990ef60d63b5b5964a1c2282061af45123e93fcb88ac00000000 HTTP/1.1" 404 36

Is it really a GET request for sending a TX? Not a POST? Also gives me a 404, but over Tor. Not sure over clearnet.

Looks like Tor Browser works with https://rest.bitcoin.com/v2/address/utxo/bitcoincash:qzfyvx77v2pmgc0vulwlfkl3uzjgh5gnmqk5hhyaa6 but the library does not. If you curl it, it blocks it (torsocks curl). So rest.bitcoin.com needs to configure Cloudflare to not filter by user agent.

Edit: Wanted to add this: https://forum.bitcoin.com/post299881.html

[merc1er]

Is it really a GET request for sending a TX? Not a POST?

Yes, for a single transaction it is a GET.
You can also use POST for multiple transactions (as per the docs on rest.bitcoin.com).

Regarding Tor, I will ask the Bitcoin.com team if they can expedite this.

Gotcha. Thank you!

[merc1er]

@teran-mckinney could you close this? 👍

@merc1er thanks for finding this issue! Bitcoin-com/rest.bitcoin.com#333

Good to know we have an answer now.