keysend: just strip even unknown fields. #5645
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Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> Changelog-Fixed: Plugins: `keysend` now removes unknown even (technically illegal!) fields, to try to accept more payments.
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| * (Keysend is not a design, it's a kludge by people who | ||
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Oh wow, this is heavy handed, but I get it. The odd-is-ok in TLV has been pretty much sidestepped by applications that didn't bother reading the how and why in the spec, and now we're getting punished for being spec-compliant... 😢 ACK 9459d22 |
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We've had reports of keyends failing, and indeed:
Sure, we've made accepting weird TLVs a non-experimental option, but surely it's better to only (and automatically!) accept them in the keysend plugin where the problem is?
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [email protected]
Changelog-Fixed: Plugins:
keysendnow removes unknown even (technically illegal!) fields, to try to accept more payments.