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authorWilliam Swanson <swansontec@gmail.com>2014-03-10 18:04:10 -0700
committerWilliam Swanson <swansontec@gmail.com>2014-03-13 00:55:49 -0700
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BIP 21: Clarify case-sensitivity
The "bitcoin:" URI scheme needs to be case-insensitive according to the RFC, but the query parameters should be case-sensitive according to the bitcoin-qt client implementation.
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@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ Elements of the query component may contain characters outside the valid range.
Here, "qchar" corresponds to valid characters of an RFC 3986 URI query component, excluding the "=" and "&" characters, which this BIP takes as separators.
+The scheme component ("bitcoin:") is case-insensitive, and implementations must accept any combination of uppercase and lowercase letters. The rest of the URI is case-sensitive, including the query parameter keys.
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=== Query Keys ===
*label: Label for that address (e.g. name of receiver)