Re: [Bitcoin-development] Accepting broken QRcodes

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Rowe
Is it worth having a few more people email Ben to ask him politely to fall into line with the BIP? No point encouraging broken windows by not speaking out. On 16 July 2012 09:16, Andreas Schildbach andr...@schildbach.de wrote: I asked Ben to fix this (social networks don't parse QRcodes after

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Accepting broken QRcodes

2012-07-16 Thread Gary Rowe
I'm sure that there are many but my Google Search-Fu is not strong enough to build a query to identify how widespread they are. Maybe once we have sufficient evidence to support the suspicion we should post to the main developer forum asking for a cleanup. After all, a Bitcoin URI starting

[Bitcoin-development] Accepting broken QRcodes

2012-07-15 Thread Mike Hearn
Hi bitcoin-development, blockchain.info generates non-BIP-compliant URIs in its QRcodes, as does its iPhone app. They are of the form bitcoin://address not bitcoin:address. I asked Ben to fix this (social networks don't parse QRcodes after all), but after explaining that social networks don't