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From: Alan de Freitas (alandefreitas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-03-25 15:52:27


Hi Rainer,

You're correct. Data URIs probably justify 2^32 chars.

In some contexts, there's a max size of 4GB for these:
https://caniuse.com/datauri

[]s,

On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 04:22, Rainer Deyke via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On 24.03.22 17:11, Alan de Freitas via Boost wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > We're deciding on the max size for URLs in our Boost.URL proposal. The
> spec
> > doesn't suggest a limit but the reasonable trade-off
> > <
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/417142/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-url-in-different-browsers
> >
> > is:
> >
> > - 2^16 chars: More than all browsers, servers, and search engines support
>
> That's not true. Both Firefox and Chromium support multi-megabyte
> embedded images using the data URI scheme.
>
>
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> Rainer Deyke (rainerd_at_[hidden])
>
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