I think it's important to expect PaymentRequest-only bitcoin URIs in the future. Some types of payments (exotic transactions) may not make sense to have a single fallback address. Or, a page with a bitcoin URI link may be relying on a separate service provider to assemble the transaction. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Gavin Andresen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Roy Badami wrote: > > > > Is it envisaged to be possible/sensible to have a URI that is *only* a > > payment request? i.e. something like the following (although I'm not > > sure this is a valid URI): > > > > bitcoin:?request=https%3A%2F%2Fmerchant.com%2Fpay.php%3Fh%3D2a8628fc2fbe > > I think we'll want a bitcoin address in there for a long time for > backwards compatibility. > > If web browser support for arbitrary MIME types is strong enough (I > haven't tested), then a payment request can be initiated with just an > anchor tag: > type="application/bitcoin-paymentrequest"> > > Doing it that way saves a http round-trip. > > -- > -- > Gavin Andresen > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your SQL database under version control now! > Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent > caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under > version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >