Allow p2p incomming connections when in read only mode

[elmato]

Change Description

Consensus Changes

• Consensus Changes

API Changes

• API Changes

Documentation Additions

• Documentation Additions

[heifner]

Can you provide your use case for enabling this behavior. The point of a read only node is so it can feed plugins not to do any validation on transactions/blocks.

[elmato]

The use case is to offer a read-only peering mode where clients can sync to the chain but they are not allowed to to push transactions using that channel.

This is useful for some sidechains that wants to let user get in sync with the chain, but they have to push transactions through over another channel (UI / RPC)

[NorseGaud]

Misspelling: incomming should be incoming

[heifner]

The use case is to offer a read-only peering mode where clients can sync to the chain but they are not allowed to to push transactions using that channel.

This is useful for some sidechains that wants to let user get in sync with the chain, but they have to push transactions through over another channel (UI / RPC)

Can't they just not load the chain_api_plugin ?

[swatanabe-b1]

Can we close this? It should be resolved by #8743, right?