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      1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #ifndef NET_BASE_DATA_URL_H_
      6 #define NET_BASE_DATA_URL_H_
      7 
      8 #include <string>
      9 
     10 #include "net/base/net_export.h"
     11 
     12 class GURL;
     13 
     14 namespace net {
     15 
     16 // See RFC 2397 for a complete description of the 'data' URL scheme.
     17 //
     18 // Briefly, a 'data' URL has the form:
     19 //
     20 //   data:[<mediatype>][;base64],<data>
     21 //
     22 // The <mediatype> is an Internet media type specification (with optional
     23 // parameters.)  The appearance of ";base64" means that the data is encoded as
     24 // base64.  Without ";base64", the data (as a sequence of octets) is represented
     25 // using ASCII encoding for octets inside the range of safe URL characters and
     26 // using the standard %xx hex encoding of URLs for octets outside that range.
     27 // If <mediatype> is omitted, it defaults to text/plain;charset=US-ASCII.  As a
     28 // shorthand, "text/plain" can be omitted but the charset parameter supplied.
     29 //
     30 class NET_EXPORT DataURL {
     31  public:
     32   // This method can be used to parse a 'data' URL into its component pieces.
     33   //
     34   // The resulting mime_type is normalized to lowercase.  The data is the
     35   // decoded data (e.g.., if the data URL specifies base64 encoding, then the
     36   // returned data is base64 decoded, and any %-escaped bytes are unescaped).
     37   //
     38   // If the URL is malformed, then this method will return false, and its
     39   // output variables will remain unchanged.  On success, true is returned.
     40   //
     41   // OPTIONAL: If |data| is NULL, then the <data> section will not be parsed
     42   //           or validated.
     43   //
     44   static bool Parse(const GURL& url,
     45                     std::string* mime_type,
     46                     std::string* charset,
     47                     std::string* data);
     48 };
     49 
     50 }  // namespace net
     51 
     52 #endif  // NET_BASE_DATA_URL_H_
     53