Added first steps of getting monerod info

Although it is proving surprisingly difficult!

src/main.rs

@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ use rocket_dyn_templates::{context, Template};
 use readable::byte::Byte;
 use readable::up::UptimeFull;
 use std::path::Path;
-
+use reqwest;
+use std::collections::HashMap;
 use sysinfo::{Components, Disks, Networks, System};
+use tokio::task;
 
 #[derive(Serialize, Debug)]
 struct ComponentInfo {
@@ -86,8 +88,30 @@ fn get_system_info() -> SysInfo {
     }
 }
 
+
+fn get_node_info() {
+    let mut map = HashMap::new();
+    map.insert("jsonrpc", "2.0");
+    map.insert("id", "0");
+    map.insert("method", "get_info");
+
+
+    let text = task::block_in_place(move || {
+        let client = reqwest::blocking::Client::new();
+	// TODO: Properly handle this unwrap - half the point of this is to capture
+	//       when the node is down
+   	let resp = client.post("http://127.0.0.1:18081/json_rpc").json(&map).send().unwrap();
+	// TODO: Make this resp.json - I need to build a deserializer I think
+	// TODO: Figure out _why_ this part needs to be inside this closure
+	resp.text()
+    }).unwrap();
+    
+    println!("{:?}", text);
+}
+
 #[get("/")]
 fn index() -> Template {
+    get_node_info();
     let system_context = get_system_info();
     let context = context! {
         system: system_context,