From: Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock•name>
To: Marco Pontello <marcopon@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] RFC - BIP: URI scheme for Blockchain exploration
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:42:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1842396.ZYjkpCDfSt@crushinator> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE0pACLQZC9Tuggwerah4LruVTfFpbOnvo0oKj4EYU8yJ9VXuQ@mail.gmail.com>
The authority part in a URI is optional.
blockchain:/tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f
Notice the lack of a double-slash.
On Tuesday, 1 September 2015, at 11:38 pm, Marco Pontello wrote:
> I see your point. But I personally like that the chain part could be
> optional, given that the vast majority of the references in the end will be
> to Bitcoin main net.
>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Matt Whitlock <bip@mattwhitlock•name>
> wrote:
>
> > Isn't this all backward? The "authority" component of the URL should
> > identify the chain, and the "path" component should identify the particular
> > block, tx, or address in that chain.
> >
> > So instead of:
> >
> >
> > blockchain://tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f?chain=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
> >
> > It should be:
> >
> >
> > blockchain://000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f/tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f
> >
> > And I would agree with allowing well-known chains to register a name, to
> > be used as an alternative to the literal, hash syntax:
> >
> >
> > blockchain://bitcoin/tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, 1 September 2015, at 4:49 pm, Marco Pontello wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Jorge Timón <
> > > bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I would really prefer chain=<chainID> over network=<chainPetnameStr>
> > > > By chainID I mean the hash of the genesis block, see
> > > >
> > > >
> > https://github.com/jtimon/bitcoin/commit/3191d5e8e75687a27cf466b7a4c70bdc04809d39
> > > > I'm completely fine with doing that using an optional parameter (for
> > > > backwards compatibility).
> > > >
> > >
> > > I see that using the genesis block hash would be the perfectly rigorous
> > way
> > > to do it, but what do you think about the possibility of letting also use
> > > the name constants, as a simple / more relaxed alternative? That would
> > > spare a source lookup just to write a correct reference to a tx, maybe
> > in a
> > > forum or a post.
> > >
> > > So a reference to a certain tx could be either:
> > >
> > >
> > blockchain://tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f
> > >
> > >
> > blockchain://tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f?chain=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f
> > >
> > >
> > blockchain://ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f?chain=main
> > >
> > > (or a different element name maybe)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Try the Online TrID File Identifier
> > > http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Try the Online TrID File Identifier
> http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-29 11:48 Marco Pontello
2015-08-29 16:31 ` Richard Moore
2015-08-29 17:19 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-08-29 19:24 ` Richard Moore
2015-08-29 18:07 ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-09-01 14:33 ` Marco Pontello
2015-08-29 18:58 ` Btc Drak
2015-08-29 19:01 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-08-29 20:10 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-30 2:02 ` Chun Wang
2015-08-30 2:20 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-01 22:56 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-01 14:49 ` Marco Pontello
2015-09-01 21:16 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-09-01 21:25 ` Esteban Ordano
2015-09-01 21:38 ` Marco Pontello
2015-09-01 21:42 ` Matt Whitlock [this message]
2015-09-01 21:43 ` Marco Pontello
2015-09-01 22:46 ` Jorge Timón
2015-09-01 23:25 ` Matt Whitlock
2015-09-01 16:12 ` Danny Thorpe
2015-09-01 22:59 ` Btc Drak
2015-09-01 23:57 ` Jorge Timón
2015-08-29 19:28 ` Richard Moore
2015-09-01 14:51 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-15 2:14 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-15 11:42 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-16 0:59 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-16 14:43 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-16 22:10 ` Marco Pontello
2015-11-18 11:29 ` Jorge Timón
2015-11-18 12:31 ` Marco Pontello
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