I have a view-only wallet opened, and from another terminal, I try to run the getbalance example from the Wallet RPC documentation. However, I get a Connection refused error:
mac:~ user$ curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:18082/json_rpc -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":"0","method":"getbalance"}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json'
curl: (7) Failed connect to 127.0.0.1:18082; Connection refused
This is on macOS (Mavericks). Anyone knows why? Should I start the wallet with extra parameters?
If I recall, RPC is disabled by default, and needs to be explicitly enabled when running the wallet.
I tried it out and got it working by using the command:
monero-wallet-cli --restricted-rpc --rpc-bind-port 18082 --wallet-file <wallet path here> --password <wallet password here>
The program will then listen and wait for rpc commands sent to it on 127.0.0.1 . The command in your post should then work.
--password "" or --password-file <empty-password-file>. I have to say this isn't very obvious from the syntax, although the error message should have rung a bell. Also, I would have expected --rpc-bind-ip <ip> to be enough, but it is really --rpc-bind-port <port> that is necessary. No idea how to accept the default port if you need to specify the parameter anyway.
I believe for wallet RPC calls you need to set the --user-agent field now. So, when you launch the wallet in RPC mode (you need to set --rpc-bind-port 18082, as user36303 mentioned), you need to set the --user-agent to be some string of your choice. This is in response to the vulnerability disclosed here:
https://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/advisories/csrf-vulnerability-allows-for-remote-compromise-of-monero-wallets/
Then, when you make the RPC call you need to set the User-Agent field of the http header to whatever you set it on the command line when launching monero-wallet-cli.
It looks like from the error message that maybe you're not binding an rpc-port though, and the connection is just being refused because monero-wallet-cli isn't listening on that (or any) port.
--rpc-bind-ip 127.0.0.1 --rpc-bind-port 18082, but then I get:Error: Wallet password not set.when startingmonero-wallet-cli. This is a view-only wallet with an empty password. Update: getting the same error when doing this for a regular wallet.