:title: Remote API
:description: API Documentation for Docker
:keywords: API, Docker, rcli, REST, documentation

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Docker Remote API
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.. contents:: Table of Contents

1. Brief introduction
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- The Remote API is replacing rcli
- Default port in the docker deamon is 4243 
- The API tends to be REST, but for some complex commands, like attach or pull, the HTTP connection is hijacked to transport stdout stdin and stderr
- Since API version 1.2, the auth configuration is now handled client side, so the client has to send the authConfig as POST in /images/(name)/push

2. Versions
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The current verson of the API is 1.2
Calling /images/<name>/insert is the same as calling /v1.2/images/<name>/insert
You can still call an old version of the api using /v1.0/images/<name>/insert

:doc:`docker_remote_api_v1.2`
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What's new
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The auth configuration is now handled by the client.
The client should send it's authConfig as POST on each call of /images/(name)/push

.. http:get:: /auth is now deprecated
.. http:post:: /auth only checks the configuration but doesn't store it on the server


:doc:`docker_remote_api_v1.1`
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docker v0.4.0 a8ae398_

What's new
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.. http:post:: /images/create
.. http:post:: /images/(name)/insert
.. http:post:: /images/(name)/push

Uses json stream instead of HTML hijack, it looks like this:

        .. sourcecode:: http

           HTTP/1.1 200 OK
	   Content-Type: application/json

	   {"status":"Pushing..."}
	   {"status":"Pushing", "progress":"1/? (n/a)"}
	   {"error":"Invalid..."}
	   ...

:doc:`docker_remote_api_v1.0`
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docker v0.3.4 8d73740_

Initial version

.. _a8ae398: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/commit/a8ae398bf52e97148ee7bd0d5868de2e15bd297f
.. _8d73740: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/commit/8d73740343778651c09160cde9661f5f387b36f4