Bitcoin custom URI integration with bitcoin-qt

Geremia

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Here's what to do for Firefox (source: http://electrum.org/bitcoin_URIs.html ):

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Firefox (version 3.5 and above)

Visit about:config
Create a new boolean (mouse right click -> new -> boolean)
Enter this name: network.protocol-handler.expose.bitcoin
Select the value: false
Next time you click on a Bitcoin URI, a dialog will ask you to enter the path of your Bitcoin client. Make sure it is executable

Chrome:
To configure Chrome on Ubuntu 10.04 or maybe later versions to handle bitcoin URIs, do this first on the command-line:

$ gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/bitcoin/command "/path/to/electrum.py %s"
$ gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/bitcoin/needs_terminal false
$ gconftool-2 -t bool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/bitcoin/enabled true

This tells Gnome what to do with bitcoin URLs, and Chrome picks that up from Gnome.

The site also has many good detailed descriptions of the Bitcoin custom URI protocol.

Geremia

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Here's how to setup custom URI scheme in KDE, which can be modified for the Bitcoin scheme.

Here's what I have in my ~/.kde/share/kde4/services :

Code:

[Protocol]
exec=/usr/local/bin/bitcoin-qt "%u"
protocol=bitcoin
input=none
output=none
helper=true
listing=false
reading=false
writing=false
makedir=false
deleting=false

, where "/usr/local/bin/bitcoin-qt" is your path to bitcoin-qt. This enables, e.g., Konquerer browser to open "bitcoin:

" links. I'm sure you could get Firefox linked up, too.

Geremia

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From the URI Scheme Bitcoin wiki page, I found this: Spesmilo, which "supports all valid Bitcoin URIs, with Windows and KDE integration." But, then again, so does bitcoin-qt…

Geremia

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BIP 0021 introduced the Bitcoin URI scheme:

Code:

bitcoin:[?amount=][?label=][?message=]

How do I integrate this into, e.g., the Firefox browser or KDE so they will open bitcoin-qt, as this says is possible?

thank you

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