Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP21 bitcoin URIs and HTML5

2013-05-02 Thread Mike Hearn
Chrome has whitelisted bitcoin: URIs for web apps, and Firefox it turns out doesn't use whitelisting at all, so it already works there. https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/14531004 I'm hoping this means web wallet developers won't be put off from supporting the payment protocol (that risk is t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP21 bitcoin URIs and HTML5

2013-04-24 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Gavin Andresen wrote: >> Ian pointed out some errors in the BIP21 spec. What's the process for >> amending the BIP? Do we need to create a new one and mark the old one as >> replaced, or can we just fix it in place given the relatively exotic nature >> of most of t

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP21 bitcoin URIs and HTML5

2013-04-24 Thread Melvin Carvalho
On 24 April 2013 09:42, Mike Hearn wrote: > HTML5 allows web apps to register themselves for handling URI schemes, > such as the bitcoin: URI that is already in use and being extended as part > of the payment protocol. > > The bad news is that for security reasons there is a whitelist of > accept

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP21 bitcoin URIs and HTML5

2013-04-24 Thread Gavin Andresen
> Ian pointed out some errors in the BIP21 spec. What's the process for amending the BIP? Do we need to create a new one and mark the old one as replaced, or can we just fix it in place given the relatively exotic nature of most of the issues? Those all sound like bugs in the BIP; I think they sho

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP21 bitcoin URIs and HTML5

2013-04-24 Thread Andreas Schildbach
I had another amendment, which roughly (can't remember the details) has to do with case-sensitivity of the scheme part and parameter names. If I remember right, BITCOIN:1d4...?AMOUNT=0.1 would be a correct URI but not valid in the sense of BIP21 currently. On 04/24/2013 09:42 AM, Mike Hearn wrote