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incorporate suggestions from feedback, closes #1025

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@ -13,12 +13,10 @@ Bitcoin Core provides a remote procedure call (RPC) interface for various
administrative tasks, wallet operations, and queries about network and block
chain data.
If you start Bitcoin Core using `bitcoin-xt`, the RPC interface is disabled by
If you start Bitcoin Core using `bitcoin-qt`, the RPC interface is disabled by
default. To enable it, set `server=1` in `bitcoin.conf` or supply the `-server`
argument when invoking the program.
If you start Bitcoin Core using `bitcoind`, the RPC interface is enabled by
default. To disable it, set `server=0` in `bitcoin.conf`.
argument when invoking the program. If you start Bitcoin Core using `bitcoind`,
the RPC interface is enabled by default.
The interface requires the user to provide a password for authenticating RPC
requests. This password can be set either using the `rpcpassword` property in
@ -39,15 +37,15 @@ describes the Bitcoin Core RPC protocol in detail.
The Bitcoin Core RPC service listens for HTTP `POST` requests on port 8332 in
mainnet mode or 18332 in testnet or regtest mode. The port number can be changed
by setting `rpcport` in `bitcoin.conf`. By default the RPC service binds to your
server's [localhost](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost) loopback
server's [localhost][Localhost] loopback
network<!--noref--> interface so it's not accessible from other servers.
Authentication is implemented using HTTP [basic
authentication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication). RPC
Authentication is implemented using [HTTP basic
authentication][HTTP basic authentication]. RPC
HTTP requests must include a `Content-Type` header set to `text/plain` and a
`Content-Length` header set to the size of the request body.
The format of the request body and response data is based on [version 1.0 of the
JSON-RPC specification](http://json-rpc<!--noref-->.org/wiki/specification). Specifically,
JSON-RPC specification][JSON-RPC version 1.0]. Specifically,
the HTTP `POST` data of a request must be a JSON object with the following
format:
@ -178,7 +176,7 @@ error: {"code": -8, "message": "Block height out of range"}
Starting in Bitcoin Core version 0.7.0, the RPC interface supports request
batching as described in [version 2.0 of the JSON-RPC
specification](http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification#batch). To initiate multiple
specification][JSON-RPC version 2.0]. To initiate multiple
RPC requests within a single HTTP request, a client can `POST` a JSON array
filled with Request objects. The HTTP response data is then a JSON array filled
with the corresponding Response objects. Depending on your usage pattern,
@ -197,7 +195,7 @@ This translates into an JSON-RPC<!--noref--> Request object of the form:
{% highlight json %}
{
"method": "<method name>",
"params": [ "param1", "param2", "..." ],
"params": [ "<param1>", "<param2>", "..." ],
"id": "foo"
}
{% endhighlight %}

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@ -293,12 +293,15 @@ http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
[forum tech support]: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=4.0
[high-speed block relay network]: https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03189.html
[HMAC-SHA512]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMAC
[HTTP JSON-RPC version 1.0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON-RPC
[HTTP basic authentication]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
[HTTP longpoll]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology#Long_polling
[IP-to-IP payment protocol]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/IP_Transactions
[IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#IPv4-mapped_IPv6_addresses
[irc channels]: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/IRC_channels
[JSON-RPC version 1.0]: http://json-rpc.org/wiki/specification
[JSON-RPC version 2.0]: http://www.jsonrpc.org/specification#batch
[libblkmaker]: https://github.com/bitcoin/libblkmaker
[localhost]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost
[makeseeds script]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/master/contrib/seeds
[murmur3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurmurHash
[man-in-the-middle]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack