The authority part in a URI is optional. blockchain:/tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f
Notice the lack of a double-slash. On Tuesday, 1 September 2015, at 11:38 pm, Marco Pontello wrote: > I see your point. But I personally like that the chain part could be > optional, given that the vast majority of the references in the end will be > to Bitcoin main net. > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Matt Whitlock <b...@mattwhitlock.name> > wrote: > > > Isn't this all backward? The "authority" component of the URL should > > identify the chain, and the "path" component should identify the particular > > block, tx, or address in that chain. > > > > So instead of: > > > > > > blockchain://tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f?chain=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f > > > > It should be: > > > > > > blockchain://000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f/tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f > > > > And I would agree with allowing well-known chains to register a name, to > > be used as an alternative to the literal, hash syntax: > > > > > > blockchain://bitcoin/tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f > > > > > > On Tuesday, 1 September 2015, at 4:49 pm, Marco Pontello wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:10 PM, Jorge Timón < > > > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I would really prefer chain=<chainID> over network=<chainPetnameStr> > > > > By chainID I mean the hash of the genesis block, see > > > > > > > > > > https://github.com/jtimon/bitcoin/commit/3191d5e8e75687a27cf466b7a4c70bdc04809d39 > > > > I'm completely fine with doing that using an optional parameter (for > > > > backwards compatibility). > > > > > > > > > > I see that using the genesis block hash would be the perfectly rigorous > > way > > > to do it, but what do you think about the possibility of letting also use > > > the name constants, as a simple / more relaxed alternative? That would > > > spare a source lookup just to write a correct reference to a tx, maybe > > in a > > > forum or a post. > > > > > > So a reference to a certain tx could be either: > > > > > > > > blockchain://tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f > > > > > > > > blockchain://tx/ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f?chain=000000000019d6689c085ae165831e934ff763ae46a2a6c172b3f1b60a8ce26f > > > > > > > > blockchain://ca26cedeb9cbc94e030891578e0d2b688a28902114f6ad2f24ecd3918f76c17f?chain=main > > > > > > (or a different element name maybe) > > > > > > -- > > > Try the Online TrID File Identifier > > > http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx > > > > > > -- > Try the Online TrID File Identifier > http://mark0.net/onlinetrid.aspx _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
