From: Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com>
To: Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] URI Handling in Bitcoin-Qt
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 07:46:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+s+GJA2qZxq=V_=Ma0LESOjae49aZHdrpMeJzQS3GtwP5T6=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA2095D.9060307@gmail.com>
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail•com> wrote:
> **
> *(1) *What is the status & plans for supporting "bitcoin:" URIs in the
> Satoshi client? My understanding is that it currently creates URIs, but
> does *not* register itself with the OS to handle such links. Is this
> accurate? This seems like a very high-value feature, and I'd recommend
> that we consider it a priority -- I can't think of any other upgrade that
> can improve usability so dramatically on the desktop.
>
It is already implemented for Linux (Gnome) and Windows, but there is an
issue with boost::ipc that crashed bitcoin at startup on windows, so it's
temporarily disabled on Windows.
> *(2) *I need to understand better what the intentions were behind
> "label=" and "message=". The way I understand it is that Bitcoin-Qt uses
> and stores only address-labels, and no other transactional info is stored
> in the wallet. As such, the "message=" field would be displayed to the
> user when a "bitcoin:" link is clicked, but that message wouldn't be saved
> anywhere.
>
Label is a label for the destination address, message is a freeform message
describing the transaction.
I don't think the message is currently stored in the Satoshi client. That
feature is somewhere on our way-too-long issue and todo list.
But I understand that you want to add transaction meta-data fields such as
contact information, bought items, item prices?
Wladimir
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-03 4:28 Alan Reiner
2012-05-03 5:46 ` Wladimir [this message]
2012-05-04 0:54 ` Alan Reiner
2012-05-03 7:16 ` Andreas Schildbach
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