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about: URLs

about: URLs serve as identifier, potentially with an associated resource. The identifier is given in the URL's scheme data.

Identifier Resource Notes
"blank" A resource whose Content-Type is text/html;charset=utf-8 and entity body is the empty string.
"invalid" - Used to represent a network error. See also CSS Values and Units.
"legacy-compat" - Used in HTML for XSLT serializers.
"srcdoc" - Used in HTML for its <iframe srcdoc> feature.
"unicorn" A resource whose Content-Type is image/svg+xml and entity body is the contents of unicorn.svg. Unicorn!

To obtain a resource from an about: URL, run these steps:

  • If URL's scheme data is not the literal string "blank" or "unicorn", return a network error. (URL's query and URL's fragment are simply not taken into account and can be anything.)
  • Return the resource corresponding to the identifier as listed in the table above, with HTTP status code 200 and HTTP status text "OK".

See also The "about" URI Scheme and "about" URI Tokens which this wiki page obsoletes.

Examples

Input Result
about:blanK network error (uppercase K)
about:bl%61nk network error (no percent decoding by either the URL parser or the obtain a resource algorithm)
about:blank?teehee works (query does not matter)
about:blank?teehee#hihi works (fragment does not matter either)

javascript: URLs

javascript: URLs represent a JavaScript script.

To obtain a script from a javascript: URL, run these steps:

  • Let input be the concatenation of URL's scheme data, followed by "?" and URL's query if URL's query is non-null, followed by "#" and URL's fragment if URL's fragment is non-null.
  • Set input to the result of percent decoding input.
  • If input starts with a U+FEFF, remove a single occurrence from the start of input.
  • Return input.

See also The 'javascript' resource identifier scheme which this wiki page obsoletes.

data: URLs

To obtain a resource from a parsed URL whose scheme is a ASCII case-insensitive match for "data:", run these steps:

  • Set input to the URL’s scheme data.
  • If the URL’s query is not null, append "?" and the query to input.
  • If input does not contain a U+002C COMMA code point, return a network error. (Note: the comma can come either from the scheme data or the query.)
  • Split input at the first comma. Set header and body to the parts before and after the comma, respectively. (Issue: what if the comma is an a MIME quoted string for a parameter value?)
  • Set body-bytes to the result of running percent decode to bytes on body.
  • If header ends with ";base64" (Issue: Match how strictly? Case sensitive or not? Allow whitespace? Percent-encoding?) then:
    • Remove the matched substring from header
    • Decode body-bytes with the Base 64 Encoding. (Issues: Also accept the URL and Filename Safe Alphabet? Mixed alphabets in the same body? Ignore which non-alphabet bytes? Missing/too little/too much padding?)
  • Return a response with header as a Content-Type header and body-bytes as the body. The parsing and interpretation of header must be the same as for an HTTP Content-Type header.

To percent decode to bytes, run the same algorithm as percent decode but replacing the last step with "Return bytes."

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