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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 <andreas@schildbach.de> 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.
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> 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.
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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.<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 16 July 2012 09:16, Andreas Schi=
ldbach <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:andreas@schildbach.de" targe=
t=3D"_blank">andreas@schildbach.de</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im">&gt; I =
asked Ben to fix this (social networks don&#39;t parse QRcodes after<br>
&gt; all), but after explaining that social networks don&#39;t parse URLs<b=
r>
&gt; without :// in them, he stopped responding to my emails. So I&#39;ve g=
one<br>
&gt; ahead and added support for reading these types of URLs to bitcoinj,<b=
r>
&gt; in the interests of &quot;just works&quot; interoperability.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; This mail is just a heads up in case anyone else wants to do the same<=
br>
&gt; thing. Hopefully at some point, Ben will stop generating such QRcodes<=
br>
&gt; and we can remove these hacks and get back to BIP compliance.<br>
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</div>The problem with this &quot;accept everything even if broken&quot; ap=
proach is<br>
that people will probably never fix the broken stuff. So we likely end<br>
up with a fragmented de-facto standard.<br>
<br>
That does not mean I am totally against accepting broken URLs, but there<br=
>
should be at least a promise that they will be fixed at the source.<br>
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