The use of getinfo before sending a transaction

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ltcd/rpcclient/infrastructure.go

Lines 1619 to 1640 in 64dfa40

	// litecoind nodes as of v0.16.0, so we'll assume the client is connected
	// to a ltcd backend if it does exist.
	info, err := c.GetInfo()
	switch err := err.(type) {
	// Parse the ltcd version and cache it.
	case nil:
	log.Debugf("Detected ltcd version: %v", info.Version)
	version := Btcd
	c.backendVersion = &version
	return *c.backendVersion, nil
	// Inspect the RPC error to ensure the method was not found, otherwise
	// we actually ran into an error.
	case *btcjson.RPCError:
	if err.Code != btcjson.ErrRPCMethodNotFound.Code {
	return 0, fmt.Errorf("unable to detect ltcd version: "+
	"%v", err)
	}
	default:
	return 0, fmt.Errorf("unable to detect ltcd version: %v", err)

Some node providers, such as getblock.io, return a 403 Forbidden for the getinfo API. As a result, it is unable to send transactions due to the inability to use the getinfo API. Is it better to skip the error on this API call?