But is he the only one using the broken URLs? It was my impression that they were widespread already. Wladimir On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Gary Rowe wrote: > 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 wrote: > >> > I asked Ben to fix this (social networks don't parse QRcodes after >> > all), but after explaining that social networks don't parse URLs >> > without :// in them, he stopped responding to my emails. So I've gone >> > ahead and added support for reading these types of URLs to bitcoinj, >> > in the interests of "just works" interoperability. >> > >> > This mail is just a heads up in case anyone else wants to do the same >> > thing. Hopefully at some point, Ben will stop generating such QRcodes >> > and we can remove these hacks and get back to BIP compliance. >> >> The problem with this "accept everything even if broken" approach is >> that people will probably never fix the broken stuff. So we likely end >> up with a fragmented de-facto standard. >> >> That does not mean I am totally against accepting broken URLs, but there >> should be at least a promise that they will be fixed at the source. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Live Security Virtual Conference >> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions >> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware >> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Bitcoin-development mailing list >> Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >