How to get around IE8 32k limit on data:uri on base64 encode?
I need to send an html response to the browser containing a 1920x1080 png. It's a screenshot taken by an html query.
I encode the image in base64 and sends it embedded as an text/html content-type. Something simple like :
<HTML><HEAD>Whatever</HEAD><BODY><img src="data:image/png;base64,data"/></BODY></HTML>
It works fine on FF and Chrome, the problem is I need to support IE8. IE8 as a limit on the length of the data:uri.
If I compress the image so the png encoding is under 32k (about 600x500) I lose too much information.
What would be the easiest work around for this problem? (I don't have access to a server to host the image or such)
Answer
In the end we dropped IE8 support.
I'm lucky it's for internal debugging purpose only.
The problem still stand though. Hopefully IE9 won't have data:uri limit.