sendmsgtopeer (hidden command)

Bitcoin Core 28.0 RPC

sendmsgtopeer peer_id "msg_type" "msg"

Send a p2p message to a peer specified by id.

The message type and body must be provided, the message header will be generated.

This RPC is for testing only.

Arguments

1. peer_id     (numeric, required) The peer to send the message to.
2. msg_type    (string, required) The message type (maximum length 12)
3. msg         (string, required) The serialized message body to send, in hex, without a message header

Result

{}    (empty JSON object)

Examples

> bitcoin-cli sendmsgtopeer 0 "addr" "ffffff"
> curl --user myusername --data-binary '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "curltest", "method": "sendmsgtopeer", "params": [0 "addr" "ffffff"]}' -H 'content-type: application/json' http://127.0.0.1:8332/