I'm sure that there are many but my Google Search-Fu is not strong enough to build a query to identify how widespread they are. Maybe once we have sufficient evidence to support the suspicion we should post to the main developer forum asking for a cleanup. After all, a Bitcoin URI starting bitcoin://
doesn't actually make much sense because there is no hierarchy in Bitcoin - it's flat with only an address being a mandatory element. I don't want to be all anal about this, but looking at RFC 3986 #10 ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#page-10) it's pretty clear that introducing a false hierarchy is breaking the specification since it presumes the existence of a relative URI. On 16 July 2012 10:02, Wladimir wrote: > 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 >> >> >