Embedding data into a URI

Check out RFC 2397, which defines a new scheme that let's you embed data into a URL. Using the data: URI scheme, you can now encode binary files as links on any web page. Here's a pic.

To encode a file, you can use this CGI program.

[via Lifehacker]

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