On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Alan Reiner <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:etotheipi@gmail.com" target="_blank">etotheipi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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  <div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><b>(1) </b>What is the status &amp; plans for supporting &quot;bitcoin:&quot;
    URIs in the Satoshi client?  My understanding is that it currently
    creates URIs, but does <b>not</b> register itself with the OS to
    handle such links.  Is this accurate?  This seems like a very
    high-value feature, and I&#39;d recommend that we consider it a priority
    -- I can&#39;t think of any other upgrade that can improve usability so
    dramatically on the desktop.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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&#39;s temporarily disabled on Windows.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><b>(2) </b>I need to understand better what the intentions were
    behind &quot;label=&quot; and &quot;message=&quot;.  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 &quot;message=&quot;
    field would be displayed to the user when a &quot;bitcoin:&quot; link is
    clicked, but that message wouldn&#39;t be saved anywhere.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Label is a label for the destination address, message is a freeform message describing the transaction.</div><div><br>
</div><div>I don&#39;t think the message is currently stored in the Satoshi client. That feature is somewhere on our way-too-long issue and todo list.</div><div><br></div><div>But I understand that you want to add transaction meta-data fields such as contact information, bought items, item prices?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Wladimir</div><div><br></div></div>