We should not adapt to people's intellectual laziness. Ultimately they'll grow up and understand why a plain ASCII address is better.
Ugh! I am so tired of that attitude!I am always flabbergasted at the irony of cyber-luddites whining about how ease of use and user friendliness are abominations unto the net.
Well, the URI idea is ok. Assuming a uri of the form "bitcoin:address#amount[%comment]", I suggest the following URI handler program :
Code:
#!/bin/bash
urldecode() { echo -e "$(sed 'y/+/ /; s/%/\\x/g')"; }
error() {
if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]]
then zenity --error --text "$*"
else echo "$*" 2>&1
fi
return 1
}
question() {
echo -n "Do you want to send $1 BTC to this address $2 "
if [[ -n "$3" ]]
then echo -n "with '$3' as a comment"
fi
echo "?" ;
}
if
uri="${uri#bitcoin:}"
[[ -z "$uri" ]]
then error "usage: $0 bitcoin-URI"
elif
addr="${uri%#*}"
[[ ! "$addr" =~ ^[1-9a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Z]{34}$ ]]
then error "Wrong address format"
elif
s=${uri##*#}
amount=${s%\%*}
[[ ! "$amount" =~ ^([1-9][0-9]*\.{,1}[0-9]*|0\.[0-9]*)$ ]]
then error "Wrong amount format"
echo $_
elif comment="${uri##*%}"
[[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]]
then
zenity --question --text "$(question $amount $addr $comment)"
else
read -p "$(question $amount $addr $comment) (y/N) " answer
[[ "$answer" =~ ^[yY]$ ]]
fi &&
bitcoind sendtoaddress $addr $amount "$comment"
urldecode() { echo -e "$(sed 'y/+/ /; s/%/\\x/g')"; }
error() {
if [[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]]
then zenity --error --text "$*"
else echo "$*" 2>&1
fi
return 1
}
question() {
echo -n "Do you want to send $1 BTC to this address $2 "
if [[ -n "$3" ]]
then echo -n "with '$3' as a comment"
fi
echo "?" ;
}
if
uri="${uri#bitcoin:}"
[[ -z "$uri" ]]
then error "usage: $0 bitcoin-URI"
elif
addr="${uri%#*}"
[[ ! "$addr" =~ ^[1-9a-km-zA-HJ-NP-Z]{34}$ ]]
then error "Wrong address format"
elif
s=${uri##*#}
amount=${s%\%*}
[[ ! "$amount" =~ ^([1-9][0-9]*\.{,1}[0-9]*|0\.[0-9]*)$ ]]
then error "Wrong amount format"
echo $_
elif comment="${uri##*%}"
[[ -n "$DISPLAY" ]]
then
zenity --question --text "$(question $amount $addr $comment)"
else
read -p "$(question $amount $addr $comment) (y/N) " answer
[[ "$answer" =~ ^[yY]$ ]]
fi &&
bitcoind sendtoaddress $addr $amount "$comment"