BIP: 71
Layer: Applications
Title: Payment Protocol MIME types
Author: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
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Comments-URI: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0071
Status: Final
Type: Standards Track
Created: 2013-07-29
Abstract
This BIP defines a MIME (RFC 2046) Media Type for Bitcoin payment request messages.
Motivation
Wallet or server software that sends payment protocol messages over email or http should follow Internet standards for properly encapsulating the messages.
Specification
The Media Type (Content-Type in HTML/email headers) for bitcoin protocol messages shall be:
| Message | Type/Subtype |
|---|---|
| PaymentRequest | application/bitcoin-paymentrequest |
| Payment | application/bitcoin-payment |
| PaymentACK | application/bitcoin-paymentack |
Payment protocol messages are encoded in binary.
Example
A web server generating a PaymentRequest message to initiate the payment protocol would precede the binary message data with the following headers:
Content-Type: application/bitcoin-paymentrequest
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary