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Dash link protocol handler (for Firefox)

cibrigue

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Hey guys,

I'm using Dash Core v0.14.0.1 and Firefox 68.0.1 on Windows 10. One of the payment processors I use for my DASH payments is CoinPayments.net. When I'm ready to pay the amount it generates a special link for me in the following format:
dash:<address>?amount=<amount>

Unfortunately Firefox and/or the Dash Core client can't understand this, so I need to paste the data manually every time.

If I click on a bitcoin link (eg. bitcoin:3GVMEdHg1s27DJBF1tpgM6hY1X8jhkCxSX?amount=0.00499000), it starts up the Bitcoin Core client and prefills all the fields.

If I open the "about:config" page in my Firefox, I can confirm that there is no protocol-handler listed for Dash at the moment (but strangely there is no handler for bitcoin either, so it might be not the right place to look for it).

There is a fairly good documentation about protocol handlers in the Firefox docs:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol

And there are other who did this before:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22729686/set-custom-protocol-handler-in-firefox

Could you guys look into it, and if it's not a big trouble, implement it? It would make the payments more convenient.

Thanks!
 
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