Broken since the deprecation of 'steemd.steemit.com' on Jan 6th

[aidev42]

My app built with steem-piston hasn't been able to properly connect to a node ever since the depreciation of 'steemd.steemit.com' on January 6th, 2018. Can someone advise how to remedy?

from piston.steem import Steem
s = Steem()

Yields:
Lost connection to node during wsconnect(): wss://steemd.steemit.com (2/-1) Retrying in 2 seconds
Lost connection to node during wsconnect(): wss://node.steem.ws (3/-1) Retrying in 4 seconds

I have tried:
s = Steem('api.steemit.com')

and similar variations with no luck either.

[febinkk]

You will have to change pistonapi/steemnoderpc.py so as to make it an http client instead of websocket.

Then call

Steem(node = ' https://api.steemit.com')

[aidev42]

That sounds a bit involved - has anyone else made this change yet? No simply fix like routing to another wss node?

[aidev42]

Looks like I'm able to use another node via:
s = Steem('wss://steemd.privex.io')

Though can anyone advise are there any security concerns to sending my wif across nodes not maintained by Steemit?

[febinkk]

If you found another working wss node go for it! The wif never leaves your computer. AFAIK it is used only for signing the transaction, within your system, and only the signatures leaves your system.

[JanusChoi]

There was an announcement here:
https://steemit.com/steemitdev/@steemitdev/update-your-steem-apps-big-changes-coming-for-3rd-party-developers

I tried but didn't know how to solve this.
Below code would work:

from steem import Steem
steem = Steem(nodes=['https://api.steemit.com'])

Would piston-lib make some update according this?