RPC server (litecoin-qt) does not work

Technical Support
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Hi,

iam using: ubuntu 16, 64Bit, litecoin version 14 (latest version to download)

First of all: Please remove the RPC help informations from litecoind. It is not good to have a help explain of this program and then getting the response by the program “rpc is no more possible in litecoind”.

I let litecoin-qt running with the rpc comand line optiions (-server -rest -rpcbind, -rpcport, -rpcallowip… ). The program listen on 9332 as expected. With tring a HTTP-GET Request from a browser the server send “Json-rpc is only with post requests possible” So … i used post requests … I tried to use / not to use the parameter rpclogin in some tests …

My testing clients (curl / java) will get a tcp-connect but after/while sending the json-rpc request the litecoin.qt will just drop the tcp-connection. In detail: tcp-socket is accepted, request bytes are fullywritten - tcp socket is closedby forign host)

i send a typical json request like: {“jsonrpc”: “1.0”, “id”:“curltest”, “method”: “getblockcount”, “params”: [] }.
I tried it with different values like “2.0” , with/without params-array, different methods … noting worked for me.

Any hints?

remark: setting -debug=rpc or -debug=1 did not produce any relevant information except that socket listener was started.

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so if the socket is open…connect your miner to that port

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Hi,

i do not “mine”. I just want to connect to the wallet via rpc to make/handle paymenta with a web-shop which i am developing. I would liketo use json-rpc to e.g. getnewadresses, get balance of the wallet , …

Connecting to that port - via curl or java-httpclient leads to a “outputstream was closed” without any bytes received…

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that’s because you need to create an HD wallet in order to do commands like that I am pretty sure…the reason the http was closed is because you were connecting to a mining port…you just need to api-allow-port in your .conf file in order for that to work…your .conf file (configuration file) is what makes or breaks external calls to the server…its basically your API setup

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Thank you. Your answer pointed in the right way.

I did not have that conf file. Any command line setting have been irgnored … but after having the same command settings placed in the litecoin.conf file - the server response to me …

Thank you…