Merge #15177: rest: Improve tests and documention of /headers and /block

7cf994d5cf qa: Improve tests of /rest/headers and /rest/block (João Barbosa)
0825b86b28 doc: /rest/block responds with 404 if block does not exist (João Barbosa)
be625f7c55 doc: Explain empty result of /rest/headers (João Barbosa)

Pull request description:

  Follow up of #15107.

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Wladimir J. van der Laan
2019-01-21 17:37:18 +01:00
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@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ For full TX query capability, one must enable the transaction index via "txindex
`GET /rest/block/notxdetails/<BLOCK-HASH>.<bin|hex|json>`
Given a block hash: returns a block, in binary, hex-encoded binary or JSON formats.
Responds with 404 if the block doesn't exist.
The HTTP request and response are both handled entirely in-memory, thus making maximum memory usage at least 2.66MB (1 MB max block, plus hex encoding) per request.
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ With the /notxdetails/ option JSON response will only contain the transaction ha
`GET /rest/headers/<COUNT>/<BLOCK-HASH>.<bin|hex|json>`
Given a block hash: returns <COUNT> amount of blockheaders in upward direction.
Returns empty if the block doesn't exist or it isn't in the active chain.
#### Chaininfos
`GET /rest/chaininfo.json`