Example #1
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Object CallRPC(const string& strMethod, const Array& params)
{
    if (mapArgs["-rpcuser"] == "" && mapArgs["-rpcpassword"] == "")
        throw runtime_error(strprintf(
            _("You must set rpcpassword=<password> in the configuration file:\n%s\n"
              "If the file does not exist, create it with owner-readable-only file permissions."),
                GetConfigFile().string().c_str()));

    // Connect to localhost
    bool fUseSSL = GetBoolArg("-rpcssl", false);
    asio::io_service io_service;
    ssl::context context(io_service, ssl::context::sslv23);
    context.set_options(ssl::context::no_sslv2 | ssl::context::no_sslv3);
    asio::ssl::stream<asio::ip::tcp::socket> sslStream(io_service, context);
    SSLIOStreamDevice<asio::ip::tcp> d(sslStream, fUseSSL);
    iostreams::stream< SSLIOStreamDevice<asio::ip::tcp> > stream(d);

    bool fWait = GetBoolArg("-rpcwait", false); // -rpcwait means try until server has started
    do {
        bool fConnected = d.connect(GetArg("-rpcconnect", "127.0.0.1"), GetArg("-rpcport", itostr(Params().RPCPort())));
        if (fConnected) break;
        if (fWait)
            MilliSleep(1000);
        else
            throw runtime_error("couldn't connect to server");
    } while (fWait);

    // HTTP basic authentication
    string strUserPass64 = EncodeBase64(mapArgs["-rpcuser"] + ":" + mapArgs["-rpcpassword"]);
    map<string, string> mapRequestHeaders;
    mapRequestHeaders["Authorization"] = string("Basic ") + strUserPass64;

    // Send request
    string strRequest = JSONRPCRequest(strMethod, params, 1);
    string strPost = HTTPPost(strRequest, mapRequestHeaders);
    stream << strPost << std::flush;

    // Receive HTTP reply status
    int nProto = 0;
    int nStatus = ReadHTTPStatus(stream, nProto);

    // Receive HTTP reply message headers and body
    map<string, string> mapHeaders;
    string strReply;
    ReadHTTPMessage(stream, mapHeaders, strReply, nProto);

    if (nStatus == HTTP_UNAUTHORIZED)
        throw runtime_error("incorrect rpcuser or rpcpassword (authorization failed)");
    else if (nStatus >= 400 && nStatus != HTTP_BAD_REQUEST && nStatus != HTTP_NOT_FOUND && nStatus != HTTP_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
        throw runtime_error(strprintf("server returned HTTP error %d", nStatus));
    else if (strReply.empty())
        throw runtime_error("no response from server");

    // Parse reply
    Value valReply;
    if (!read_string(strReply, valReply))
        throw runtime_error("couldn't parse reply from server");
    const Object& reply = valReply.get_obj();
    if (reply.empty())
        throw runtime_error("expected reply to have result, error and id properties");

    return reply;
}