Re: [Lynx-dev] support for data: URI scheme, please?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

>         I wonder, is there a chance to get the data: URI scheme
>         supported?

with a patch, I guess so.  It's not syntactically similar to xml or html,
so parsing and rendering it would be a fair amount of work.

>         E. g., when pointed to [1], some browsers will happily display
>         ???Hello, world!???.
>
> [1] data:text/plain;base64,SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQo=
>
> --cut: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397 --
> 1. Abstract
>
>    A new URL scheme, "data", is defined.  It allows inclusion of small
>    data items as "immediate" data, as if it had been included
>    externally.
>
> 2. Description
>
>    Some applications that use URLs also have a need to embed (small)
>    media type data directly inline.  This document defines a new URL
>    scheme that would work like 'immediate addressing'.  The URLs are of
>    the form:
>
>                    data:[<mediatype>][;base64],<data>
> --cut: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397 --
>
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