Melvin Carvalho [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2013-07-31 📝 Original message:On 31 July 2013 13:33, ...

📅 Original date posted:2013-07-31
📝 Original message:On 31 July 2013 13:33, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Roy Badami <roy at gnomon.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Is it envisaged to be possible/sensible to have a URI that is *only* a
> > payment request? i.e. something like the following (although I'm not
> > sure this is a valid URI):
> >
> > bitcoin:?request=https%3A%2F%2Fmerchant.com%2Fpay.php%3Fh%3D2a8628fc2fbe
>
> I think we'll want a bitcoin address in there for a long time for
> backwards compatibility.
>
> If web browser support for arbitrary MIME types is strong enough (I
> haven't tested), then a payment request can be initiated with just an
> anchor tag:
> <a href="https://merchant.com/pay.php?3D2a8628fc2fbe";
> type="application/bitcoin-paymentrequest">
>

Unless I'm mistaken you cant generally set the "Accept" header on a browser
via a standard href ... one of those annoying quirks


>
> Doing it that way saves a http round-trip.
>
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