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Martin Bays mbays at sdf.org
Fri May 29 23:42:52 BST 2020
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I tried *so* hard to avoid this, but you just can't. This data:// URL
thing is a monster.
One possible solution I haven't seen mentioned: make it part of the spec that the full URI of a link should (or even must) be displayed as part of any rendering of the link. That would hopefully be enough to thwart any slide towards data links being interpreted by some clients as inline images etc, since spec-respecting clients would render them as ugly long strings.
Personally I think this would be a good rule anyway -- as part of the user control dogma, the user should have full awareness of what request to what server following a link will result in.