Title: Pool server auto-configuration: /config.json Post by: jgarzik on April 09, 2011, 10:09:02 PM Currently, pool server extensions such as long-polling (http://deepbit.net/longpolling.php) provide static configuration information -- the long-polling URL -- via a special HTTP header. This is sub-optimal, because the long-polling URL is unlikely to change, yet many pool servers utilize the simple approach and send the same LP URL to each mining client, over and over again, wasting bandwidth. A server list, used in mining client fail-over (something I have been pushing for), would be another example of static configuration information communicated from pool server to client. Therefore, I began updating cpuminer to download $POOL_SERVER/config.json. This will look something like Code: { "name" : "slush", This should give pool servers a lot more flexibility in defining optional features and metadata, without needing to transmit that information redundantly in every single 'getwork' HTTP header. |