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BIP: 71
Title: Payment Protocol MIME types
Author: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
Status: Draft
Type: Standards Track
Created: 2013-07-29
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[[abstract]]
Abstract
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This BIP defines a MIME (RFC 2046) Media Type for Bitcoin payment
request messages.
[[motivation]]
Motivation
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Wallet or server software that sends payment protocol messages over
email or http should follow Internet standards for properly
encapsulating the messages.
[[specification]]
Specification
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The Media Type (Content-Type in HTML/email headers) for bitcoin protocol
messages shall be:
[cols=",",]
|==================================================
|Message |Type/Subtype
|PaymentRequest |application/bitcoin-paymentrequest
|Payment |application/bitcoin-payment
|PaymentACK |application/bitcoin-paymentack
|==================================================
Payment protocol messages are encoded in binary.
[[example]]
Example
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A web server generating a PaymentRequest message to initiate the payment
protocol would precede the binary message data with the following
headers:
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Content-Type: application/bitcoin-paymentrequest
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
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