From 6f15f98b1256bfe097962b0e9ad56ed9c5e5ab7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Swanson Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 18:04:10 -0700 Subject: 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. --- bip-0021.mediawiki | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'bip-0021.mediawiki') diff --git a/bip-0021.mediawiki b/bip-0021.mediawiki index fba47f3..44cca1f 100644 --- a/bip-0021.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0021.mediawiki @@ -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. + === Query Keys === *label: Label for that address (e.g. name of receiver) -- cgit v1.2.3