bitcoin/bitcoin — pull request #991 by gavinandresen (2012-03-26 16:24:12+00:00)
Title: Disable bitcoin: URI handling on Windows for the 0.6 release

I don't think bitcoin: URI handling on Windows has had nearly enough testing, so this disables it for the 0.6 release.

I'm all for re-enabling it for a 0.6.1 and/or 0.7, but only we take a step back and do two things:

1. Can we get an IPC solution that doesn't require monkey-patching boost::interprocess ?
2. I'm nervous that attackers might be able to craft bitcoin: URIs that Do Bad Things. I would suggest that we disable Linux bitcoin: URI handling until that is fixed, but I consider bitcoin: URI handling on Linux experimental anyway because users have to know how to manually enable it.