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| author | William Swanson <swansontec@gmail.com> | 2014-03-06 17:16:03 -0800 |
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| committer | William Swanson <swansontec@gmail.com> | 2014-03-06 18:07:06 -0800 |
| commit | 820736896ec0ee34c4a7b2432e0164ace75745b9 (patch) | |
| tree | b240cb2b2555dae63a8f1e292bf20eaceaf1a827 /bip-0072.mediawiki | |
| parent | c823eeb5964be9abec8b146293ee82933be7ca72 (diff) | |
| download | bips-820736896ec0ee34c4a7b2432e0164ace75745b9.tar.xz | |
BIP 72: Reduce the amount of escaping needed
RFC 3986 obsoletes RFC 1738, which this BIP was wrongly referencing.
The new RFC requires far less escaping for query parameters.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bip-0072.mediawiki b/bip-0072.mediawiki index 4edd749..246a40c 100644 --- a/bip-0072.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0072.mediawiki @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ bitcoin wallets. The bitcoin: URI scheme is extended with an additional, optional "r" parameter, whose value is a URL from which a PaymentRequest -message should be fetched (unsafe and reserved octets in the URL value -must be encoded as described in RFC 1738). +message should be fetched (characters not allowed within the scope +of a query parameter must be percent-encoded as described in RFC 3986 +and bip-0021). If the "r" parameter is provided and backwards compatibility is not required, then the bitcoin address portion of the URI may be @@ -52,9 +53,9 @@ r parameter and will initiate a payment to bitcoin address. ==Examples== A backwards-compatible request: <pre> -bitcoin:mq7se9wy2egettFxPbmn99cK8v5AFq55Lx?amount=0.11&r=https%3A%2F%2Fmerchant.com%2Fpay.php%3Fh%3D2a8628fc2fbe +bitcoin:mq7se9wy2egettFxPbmn99cK8v5AFq55Lx?amount=0.11&r=https://merchant.com/pay.php?h%3D2a8628fc2fbe </pre> Non-backwards-compatible equivalent: <pre> -bitcoin:?r=https%3A%2F%2Fmerchant.com%2Fpay.php%3Fh%3D2a8628fc2fbe +bitcoin:?r=https://merchant.com/pay.php?h%3D2a8628fc2fbe </pre> |