BIP 0071 - Payment Protocol MIME types

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Data sheet for Payment Protocol MIME types

Title	Payment Protocol MIME types
Layer	Applications
Author	Gavin Andresen
Comments-Summary	No comments yet.
Comments-URI	https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/wiki/Comments:BIP-0071
Status	Final
Type	Standards Track
Created	2013-07-28
Post History
Description	https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0071.mediawiki

Note: The following is an excerpt from the official Bitcoin site. It is provided here as a convenience and is not authoritative. Refer to the original document(s) as the authoritative reference.

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.