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 17:16:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5546682.RnG4VcateO@crushinator> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE0pAC+32rhWdBL+WbPANy0rd+eh-XsPQy-u3OHUxS0ku7eN-Q@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-01 21:16 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 [this message]
2015-09-01 21:25 ` Esteban Ordano
2015-09-01 21:38 ` Marco Pontello
2015-09-01 21:42 ` Matt Whitlock
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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