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Show HN: ICanHazData – Data URI Swiss Army Knife

by chadscira on 11/28/16, 9:10 PM with 5 comments

  • by orf on 11/28/16, 11:23 PM

    I get why you might want to make this, but isn't it just a one-liner?

    > echo "data:$(file -b --mime-type somefile);base64,$(base64 somefile)"

  • by chadscira on 11/28/16, 11:02 PM

    This was made to make playing with Data URI's much easier.

    I find myself often needing a quick way to generate a Data URI when playing with files on jsfiddle, or codepen (due to CORS). So I thought it would be nice to have a website that locally stores those files.

    This was thrown together in a couple of hours (using react/mobx), and inspired by [0] "The XSS Game By Google post". It turned out that quite a few people didn't know that you could use URI's for things that were not images.

    If you have any suggestions feel free to voice them :)

    - [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13021869