What is the valid/legitimate use here? Why can't the image URL simply be output in cleartext?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Otto <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">It blocks the use of base64_decode. He's not using that, he's using data: URIs.<br>
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More info: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme</a><br>
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Data URI's are generally safe and not objectionable at all. They're<br>
not particularly cross browser or anything (IE only supports them in<br>
IE8 and up), but they're safe enough.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Simon Prosser <<a href="mailto:pross@pross.org.uk">pross@pross.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> On 16/11/2010 16:05, Chip Bennett wrote:<br>
><br>
> Please see this diff for a previously approved Theme.<br>
> Is there any particular *need* to base64-encode background images? I am<br>
> inclined to say *no*, but wanted a second opinion before I not-approve the<br>
> ticket.<br>
><br>
> I thought the uploader blocked base64?<br>
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