The "data:" URI scheme considered helpful

The "data:" URI scheme can be used to serve the purpose of ephemeral
namespace names quite nicely.  In its simplest form, it is "data:,"
followed by an arbitrary string of URL-safe characters and %xx escapes.
If dereferenced, it returns the URL-decoded string as a text/plain document.
(Try it in your Netscape browsers.)

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