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From: "Luke-Jr" <luke@dashjr.org>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:15:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112191315.25857.luke@dashjr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EEF6EA2.4060709@parhelic.com>

On Monday, December 19, 2011 12:04:34 PM Jordan Mack wrote:
> I still think HTTPS should be used, at the minimum. Using HTTPS is
> standard to every website out there that deals with financials, even if
> it is not a perfect system. Why should Bitcoin adopt a more lax policy
> than everyone else?

Sure, I meant HTTP as the underlying protocol.
TLS/SSL should of course be required in some form.

> I thought that JSON support was fairly common these days. I personally
> prefer XML in most cases, but since JSON is already used with the RPC,
> it seemed like a natural fit here. 

JSON-RPC won't go on forever. In any case, bitcoind's use of JSON-RPC is 
exactly why I (and many other developers) have come to the realization how 
poorly supported JSON really is. Most of the common languages do have a 
library, but almost all of them have one issue or another (particularly around 
the very undefined Number type).

XML shares the same binary-data problem as JSON, too.
As slush mentioned, no additional serialization is necessary anyway.

> Binary data can be base64 encoded, although I'm not sure why you would need
> to send back binary in an alias response.

Because computers work with binary. I don't think anyone wants to implement a 
fully functional script assembler just to send funds.

> What exactly do you mean by "custom output script"?

This suggests you need to learn more about how Bitcoin works ;)
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-19 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-12 22:21 [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases Amir Taaki
2011-12-12 22:25 ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-12 22:32 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-13  4:38 ` theymos
2011-12-13  7:41   ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-15 19:59 ` theymos
2011-12-15 23:56   ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-16  2:37   ` Kyle Henderson
2011-12-16  4:32     ` Walter Stanish
2011-12-16  2:48   ` Matt Corallo
2011-12-16 17:23   ` Khalahan
2011-12-16 19:54     ` slush
2011-12-16 20:10       ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-16 20:14         ` Harald Schilly
2011-12-16 21:52       ` Khalahan
2011-12-16 22:05         ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-18 21:05           ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-18 21:18             ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-18 21:44             ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-18 23:58               ` slush
2011-12-19  1:13                 ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19  1:14                 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-19  1:43                   ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19  1:44                   ` slush
2011-12-19  7:56                     ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-19 11:44                       ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-19 14:46                         ` solar
2011-12-19 15:35                           ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-19 16:35                         ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 17:13                           ` solar
2011-12-19 16:30                       ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 17:04                         ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 17:09                           ` slush
2011-12-19 18:13                             ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 18:17                               ` slush
2011-12-19 18:50                                 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-19 20:03                                   ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 19:22                                 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 18:15                           ` Luke-Jr [this message]
2011-12-19 18:52                             ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-19 19:16                               ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-19 20:03                                 ` Jordan Mack
2011-12-16  8:35 ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-16 16:03   ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-16 16:17     ` Pieter Wuille
2011-12-16 16:21       ` Rick Wesson
2011-12-16 17:21     ` Andy Parkins
2011-12-12 23:16 Zell Faze
2011-12-12 23:37 ` Jorge Timón
2011-12-12 23:41   ` Luke-Jr
2011-12-13  2:39     ` Stefan Thomas
2011-12-12 23:52   ` Matt Corallo
2011-12-12 23:37 ` Will

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