[Qt-interest] What does data: scheme do in network access

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Domingo 30. Agosto 2009, às 06.15.31, Tony Rietwyk escreveu:
> Hi Thiago,
> 
> I'm curious.  You refered to scheme "data:" in your response to Patric's
>  question about QNetworkAccessManager.
> 
> What does this protocol do and when is it appropriate to use it?
> 
> QNetworkAccessDataBackend doesn't have any documentation.

It's a standard URI mechanism.

See:
http://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=2397
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2397

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/data_URIs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc848897(VS.85).aspx

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