Blockchain info (feature request)

[R5fan]

feature request: scrape blockchain.info on longpoll to determine block owner.
Ive done some testing and it appears 99% correct. AKA, plenty good for hopping, particularly for deepbit.

By contrast the current LP guessing and IRC system seem utterly broken (perhaps because blockexplorer is down?)

Blockchain info has an API:
http://blockchain.info/api

If I understand it correctly, "Inventory Data" even gives confidence of the block owner.

[Locky7]

FYI, from what I understand (which is little,) blockchain is used via the lpworkbench plugin to search and verify blocks.

https://github.com/c00w/bitHopper/blob/master/plugins/lpworkbench/lpworkbench.html

line 74

[R5fan]

Euh? That generates the HTML page.
Ill go through the code later, but Im not good enough to implement this properly anyway.