- This controls where the node's webserver should listen, providing
- filesystem access and node status as defined in
- `<frontends/webapi.rst>`_. This file contains a Twisted "strports"
- specification such as "``3456``" or "``tcp:3456:interface=127.0.0.1``".
- The "``tahoe create-node``" or "``tahoe create-client``" commands set the
- ``web.port`` to "``tcp:3456:interface=127.0.0.1``" by default; this is
- overridable by the ``--webport`` option. You can make it use SSL by
- writing "``ssl:3456:privateKey=mykey.pem:certKey=cert.pem``" instead.
+ This controls where the node's web server should listen, providing node
+ status and, if the node is a client/server, providing web-API service as
+ defined in `webapi.rst <frontends/webapi.rst>_`.
+
+ This file contains a Twisted "strports" specification such as "``3456``"
+ or "``tcp:3456:interface=127.0.0.1``". The "``tahoe create-node``" or
+ "``tahoe create-client``" commands set the ``web.port`` to
+ "``tcp:3456:interface=127.0.0.1``" by default; this is overridable by the
+ ``--webport`` option. You can make it use SSL by writing
+ "``ssl:3456:privateKey=mykey.pem:certKey=cert.pem``" instead.