Node info breaks on slow IPC connection

[skubakdj]

Geetings Mist team!

I'm working on Mewify for MyEtherWallet. It emulates a local Geth IPC connection which allows users to run Mist with our public backend instead of syncing a full node.

I'm having trouble getting Mist to boot up correctly when connected through Mewify -- it seems as if the data provided by EthBlocks.init() doesn't get returned, and as a result the node info display remains broken for the life of the application. This occurs whenever there is sufficient latency (as little as 50ms) in the round-trip time from client IPC request to server response.

AFAICT, Mist will create an IPC socket on boot, and then 'reset' that socket shortly after. The pattern I'm seeing goes like Mist boot -> IPC connection established -> EthStats.init() -> Mist resets IPC connection -> Mewify attempts to write to a now dead socket. I believe this isn't normally observed with Geth because the local node is able to fetch & return the required data before the connection is initially cycled. However, initialization would still likely fail if Geth where to hiccup for any reason.

I was able to fix this by inserting an interval in appStart.js to confirm EthStats.init() completes. On the cases where EthStats.init is called more than once, there doesn't seem to be any detriment.

Does this seem like something that could get merged in at some point?

TLDR: Block info breaks when the connected node serves slow responses because initial IPC connections get reset and EthStats.init() can't complete.

[evertonfraga]

Hi @skubakdj, thanks for the PR. I am following the Mewify project, and it is of our interest to make them work great together.

I'll take a thorough look at it, probably in the beginning of the next week.

Cheers!

[joshksas11]

accidentally made a made a mistake of making trade don't even know how much ether iot is

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