From 6f15f98b1256bfe097962b0e9ad56ed9c5e5ab7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Swanson <swansontec@gmail.com>
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)
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