URI::data (3)

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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 scheme. The data scheme is specified in 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

) 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

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.