Data in a hurry

[venta]

Dull survey: does your web browser of choice support the data:// scheme, as defined in RFC 2397 ?

Quick check:

If you can see a little picture of a face here, the answer is "yes". If you see some form of red-x/image-not-available thing, that's a "no".



If you could comment, letting me know which browser you're using, that'd be great.

To save an immediate flurry of duplicate comments, IE6 doesn't support it :)

Comments

[voratus.livejournal.com]

Perhaps opening the file in a hex editor?

[voratus.livejournal.com]

Actually, that wouldn't work, because it would give you hex, not ascii, which is what the code apparantly is.
Maybe getting the hex from a hex editor and then converting that to ascii?

Head splodey!

[voratus.livejournal.com]

Scratch that idea. I don't think it's ascii after all, but some sort of mime encoding.

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

wechsler@heifong:~/scripts$ php -q
<?php print(base64_encode(file_get_contents('../Untitled-1.gif'))); ?>
^D

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I can't vouch for the non-virus-iness of the windows executable, but you could try this: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/base64/

[voratus.livejournal.com]

That did it, which allows me to do this: