NAME

       URI::data - URI that contains immediate data

SYNOPSIS

        use URI;

        $u = URI->new("data:");
        $u->media_type("image/gif");
        $u->data(scalar(`cat camel.gif`));
        print "$u\n";
        open(XV, "|xv -") and print XV $u->data;

DESCRIPTION

       The "URI::data" class supports "URI" objects belonging to the data URI scheme.  The data URI scheme is
       specified in RFC 2397.  It allows inclusion of small data items as "immediate" data, as if it had been
       included externally.  Examples:

         data:,Perl%20is%20good

         data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhIAAgAIAAAAAAAPj8+CwAAAAAI
           AAgAAAClYyPqcu9AJyCjtIKc5w5xP14xgeO2tlY3nWcajmZZdeJcG
           Kxrmimms1KMTa1Wg8UROx4MNUq1HrycMjHT9b6xKxaFLM6VRKzI+p
           KS9XtXpcbdun6uWVxJXA8pNPkdkkxhxc21LZHFOgD2KMoQXa2KMWI
           JtnE2KizVUkYJVZZ1nczBxXlFopZBtoJ2diXGdNUymmJdFMAADs=

       "URI" objects belonging to the data scheme support the common methods (described in URI) and the
       following two scheme-specific methods:

       $uri->media_type( [$new_media_type] )
           Can  be  used to get or set the media type specified in the URI.  If no media type is specified, then
           the default "text/plain;charset=US-ASCII" is returned.

       $uri->data( [$new_data] )
           Can be used to get or set the data contained in the URI.  The data is  passed  unescaped  (in  binary
           form).  The decision about whether to base64 encode the data in the URI is taken automatically, based
           on the encoding that produces the shorter URI string.

SEE ALSO

       URI

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1995-1998 Gisle Aas.

       This  library  is  free  software;  you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

perl v5.38.2                                       2024-02-14                                     URI::data(3pm)