Re: bad-idea-of-the-day: Inline data as URL scheme?

Paul Burchard (burchard@cs.princeton.edu)
Wed, 30 Aug 95 17:22:42 -0400


Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> writes:
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> data:<mimetype>,<encoding>,<encoded-value>

Cute, but is the overhead of the cid: scheme really so bad? I'd
much rather see a general multipart "Web media bundler" -- just
about every extension of the Web architecture I've thought about
would benefit from something like that.

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