How to connect a third party provider? about rust-bitcoincore-rpc

[apoelstra]

Your issue is probably that this library's underlying HTTP transport does not support HTTPS. In practice this probably means that you can't connect to any non-local nodes unless you add a local proxy or something.

We have some plans to switch our HTTP implementation to minreq but there's a fair bit of prepatory work we need to do (and we'll need some cooperation from the authors of that library, probably), but until we get that sorted, this is the situation.

[oneforalone]

Okay, I see. I just made it with hyper crate, but it seems that there's lots methods should write from the scratch.

And what comes in my mind is, just change the HTTP implementation in jsonrpc crate, cause I've noticed that you are using jsonrpc crate for HTTP connection. However, I'm kind new with Rust and Bitcoin, just can't tell which is better. Writing it from scratch using hyper / minreq, or modifying this repos codes? Could you give me some advice?

[apoelstra]

@oneforalone if you want to switch to Hyper I'd advise to start from scratch -- it's actually not too complicated. You just make HTTP requests then parse the resulting data using serde_json::from_reader or something like that.

What this crate gives you are pre-defined data structures for the responses that Bitcoin Core gives to RPC calls, but if you only need a couple RPCs, these are easy to implement yourself.

[oneforalone]

What this crate gives you are pre-defined data structures for the responses that Bitcoin Core gives to RPC calls, but if you only need a couple RPCs, these are easy to implement yourself.

Got it, really appreciate.