Does RPC support "call over internet" ?

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Quote from: PrimeNumber7 on March 01, 2020, 02:37:33 AM

If I am not mistaken, even if ill-advisable, you can add the rpcallowip=[IPv4/IPv6 address or with a subnet specification] line to bitcoin.conf to accept connections from external IP addresses.

Alternatively you can use reverse proxy, which also could take care security problem (assuming you configure it properly).

Yes, a reverse proxy, assuming the proxy is configured to only make specific RPC commands would be better security-wise than allowing RPC access via the internet. I believe the OPs question is if it is possible to have RPC access via the internet, and the answer is that this is a very bad idea, but it is possible.
The best solution would probably be to have an intermediary DB that stores whatever information you want to be publicly available on the internet and have an API that queries the DB (similar to what achow101 described above).

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Quote from: maplelake on March 01, 2020, 03:48:58 AM

There are many web-service/app which serves bitcoin. What is their tech prototype ?
As my understanding, they must enter bitcoin network by a node. How do they provide service on internet ? I guess they talk to some bitcoin core node by rest/RPC by IP address and then expose their service by web interface.

They run Bitcoin Core as part of their backend. Their APIs and whatever else is part of their service accesses the RPCs as needed. The RPCs are never directly exposed to the internet.

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Quote from: achow101 on February 29, 2020, 09:06:09 PM

No. RPC is not exposed over the internet and it is not safe to expose it to the internet.

Nodes communicate using the P2P protocol. There is no need for another node to directly control another node using the RPC commands.

There are many web-service/app which serves bitcoin. What is their tech prototype ?
As my understanding, they must enter bitcoin network by a node. How do they provide service on internet ? I guess they talk to some bitcoin core node by rest/RPC by IP address and then expose their service by web interface.

do you know some project that i could refer its code ?
actually this question bothers me a lot for a long time...

Thanks