[image] The Internet Computer Interface Specification | Internet Computer Home theinternetcomputerinterfacespecification} The canister_status when queried by a canister for itself is rejected. This is because this call is only allowed for principals that are …

Good news: the next replica version will allow a canister to read its own status. However, due to security concerns, we have not implemented the analogous relaxation that would allow a canister to update its settings. This change would make auditing canisters somewhat more involved since a caniste…

How about always allow the canister_status call from the canister itself, without explicitly adding it to its own controller list? Would that suffice? It doesn’t deal with the first bullet point in the reasons list, but I think it suffices for the remaining two. This change would be rather simple t…

Yes, that would be perfect. That wouldn’t require a change to any existing API as well. :metal:

I run the proposal internally through the teams that are affected: we’ll try to get this done soon.

Can you also do the same for updatesettings?

The scope of that RFC, looks quite large as compared to the ask here. This thread is just about making the canister_status of a canister available to itself. It can then choose if it wants to expose it to the outside world using a separate function implemented on itself. But yeah, standards are a…

Makes sense. We’ll add that to the list.

As @saikatdas0790 said that RFC is much bigger in scope – we’re still tracking it and plan to improve on that side. The changes required here are significantly smaller so we’ll try to move fast on those.

Thank you. Will keep an eye out for the proposal :slight_smile:

Feature Request: Provide easier access to canister_status

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jzxchiang September 16, 2022, 1:03am 6

Wasn’t a variant of this proposed under this RFC? I think that proposal never got much traction for whatever reason.

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Feature Request: Provide easier access to canister_status

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