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When no (supported) authentication is passed to the JSON-RPC server, return a 401 HTTP error code instead of 403. This indicates to the client that authentication is required, and also requests that to be sent using the "basic" method. The previously-returned code 403 is now only returned if authentication is passed but not valid. There are some JSON-RPC clients out there that only send authentication after a 401 code requested it. Those fail to connect to the Electrum RPC interface even if the correct password is configured. Those same clients can e.g. connect to Bitcoin Core successfully, which already implements logic matching this change. See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3297048/403-forbidden-vs-401-unauthorized-http-responses.
Electrum - Lightweight Bitcoin client
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Licence: MIT Licence
Author: Thomas Voegtlin
Language: Python (>= 3.6)
Homepage: https://electrum.org/
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Getting started
===============
Electrum is a pure python application. If you want to use the
Qt interface, install the Qt dependencies::
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5
If you downloaded the official package (tar.gz), you can run
Electrum from its root directory without installing it on your
system; all the python dependencies are included in the 'packages'
directory. To run Electrum from its root directory, just do::
./run_electrum
You can also install Electrum on your system, by running this command::
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
python3 -m pip install .[fast]
This will download and install the Python dependencies used by
Electrum instead of using the 'packages' directory.
The 'fast' extra contains some optional dependencies that we think
are often useful but they are not strictly needed.
If you cloned the git repository, you need to compile extra files
before you can run Electrum. Read the next section, "Development
Version".
Development version
===================
Check out the code from GitHub::
git clone git://github.com/spesmilo/electrum.git
cd electrum
git submodule update --init
Run install (this should install dependencies)::
python3 -m pip install .[fast]
Compile the protobuf description file::
sudo apt-get install protobuf-compiler
protoc --proto_path=electrum --python_out=electrum electrum/paymentrequest.proto
Create translations (optional)::
sudo apt-get install python-requests gettext
./contrib/pull_locale
Creating Binaries
=================
Linux (tarball)
---------------
See :code:`contrib/build-linux/README.md`.
Linux (AppImage)
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See :code:`contrib/build-linux/appimage/README.md`.
Mac OS X / macOS
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See :code:`contrib/osx/README.md`.
Windows
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See :code:`contrib/build-wine/README.md`.
Android
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See :code:`electrum/gui/kivy/Readme.md`.