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BIP: 71
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Layer: Applications
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Title: Payment Protocol MIME types
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Author: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
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Comments-Summary: No comments yet.
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Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0071
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Status: Final
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Type: Standards Track
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Created: 2013-07-29
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==Abstract==
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This BIP defines a MIME (RFC 2046) Media Type for Bitcoin payment
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request messages.
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==Motivation==
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Wallet or server software that sends payment protocol messages over
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email or http should follow Internet standards for properly
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encapsulating the messages.
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==Specification==
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The Media Type (Content-Type in HTML/email headers) for bitcoin
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protocol messages shall be:
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{|
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| Message || Type/Subtype
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| PaymentRequest || application/bitcoin-paymentrequest
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| Payment || application/bitcoin-payment
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| PaymentACK || application/bitcoin-paymentack
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|}
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Payment protocol messages are encoded in binary.
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==Example==
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A web server generating a PaymentRequest message to initiate the
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payment protocol would precede the binary message data with the
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following headers:
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Content-Type: application/bitcoin-paymentrequest
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
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