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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Burchard)
Wed Aug 30 17:25:36 1995

From: Paul Burchard <burchard@cs.princeton.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 17:22:42 -0400
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Reply-To: burchard@cs.princeton.edu
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org

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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