That surely make sense. A URI like that perfectly readable, unambiguous and simple enough. And nice to see a Wallet developer showing interest for this! :) On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On 08/29/2015 06:31 PM, Richard Moore via bitcoin-dev wrote: > > > I like the idea of having a standard for this, that all explorers (and > > even core, eventually) would understand. > > > > I would recommend 2 changes though. First, using a real URI scheme, > > blockchain:// so that we can just use normal URL parsing libraries. The > > bitcoin: thing leads to additional code to mutate it into a proper URI > > before passing it to URL parsing. And I think it would be fine to > > include the type looking up. For example: > > > > > blockchain://blockhash/00000000000000001003e880d500968d51157f210c632e08a652af3576600198 > > > blockchain://txid/3b95a766d7a99b87188d6875c8484cb2b310b78459b7816d4dfc3f0f7e04281a > > blockchain://block/189000 > > blockchain://address/1RicMooMWxqKczuRCa5D2dnJaUEn9ZJyn > > Good thinking! It might make sense to look at the existing de-facto > standard (e.g. blockexplorer.com, blockchain.info): > > /tx/ for transactions > /block/ for blocks, supports both hash or height > /address/ for address > > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > -- Try the Online TrID File Identifier http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx