# Gavin Andresen
# 2010-07-22 01:11:26
# https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=461.msg4908#msg4908

I volunteered to implement this, and made good progress today.  Satoshi: I should have patches for you tomorrow. @p{par}

Done: teach Bitcoin to read settings from {BITCOIN_DIR}/bitcoin.conf file, and added -conf=path_to_config_file.conf command-line option.   @p{brk}
Done: teach Bitcoin RPC to require HTTP Basic authentication, and reject requests with the wrong username/password. @p{par}

TODO: teach Bitcoin command-line RPC to add the Authorization: header.  You won't have to give the username/password when controlling bitcoin from the command line, it'll read them from the bitcoin.conf file and Do the Right Thing. @p{brk}
TODO: dialog box or debug.log warning if no rpc.user/rpc.password is set, explaining how to set. @p{brk}
TODO: limit password guessing attempts if the rpc.password is @p{lt} 15 characters long. @p{brk}
TODO: update the JSON-RPC wiki page @p{par}

After all that is done and I've sent patches to Satoshi, I'm going to add a couple more things to bitcoin.conf : @p{par}

port=   # to set the listen port (override default 8333) @p{brk}
rpc.port= # to set the JSON-RPC port (override default 8332) @p{par}

With the existing -datadir option, that'll make it easier for me to run multiple bitcoins on one box. @p{brk}