src/net/base/data_url.h

// Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

#ifndef NET_BASE_DATA_URL_H_
#define NET_BASE_DATA_URL_H_

#include <string>

#include "net/base/net_export.h"

class GURL;

namespace net {

// See RFC 2397 for a complete description of the 'data' URL scheme.
//
// Briefly, a 'data' URL has the form:
//
//   data:[<mediatype>][;base64],<data>
//
// The <mediatype> is an Internet media type specification (with optional
// parameters.)  The appearance of ";base64" means that the data is encoded as
// base64.  Without ";base64", the data (as a sequence of octets) is represented
// using ASCII encoding for octets inside the range of safe URL characters and
// using the standard %xx hex encoding of URLs for octets outside that range.
// If <mediatype> is omitted, it defaults to text/plain;charset=US-ASCII.  As a
// shorthand, "text/plain" can be omitted but the charset parameter supplied.
//
class NET_EXPORT DataURL {
 public:
  // This method can be used to parse a 'data' URL into its component pieces.
  //
  // The resulting mime_type is normalized to lowercase.  The data is the
  // decoded data (e.g.., if the data URL specifies base64 encoding, then the
  // returned data is base64 decoded, and any %-escaped bytes are unescaped).
  //
  // If the media type value doesn't match the media-type production defined in
  // RFC 7231, mime_type will be set to the default value "text/plain". We
  // don't simply fail for this grammar violation since Chromium had been
  // accepting such invalid values. For example, <img> element with the src
  // attribute set to a data URL with an invalid media type "image" (without a
  // slash and subtype) had been displayed. However, the value this method will
  // store in mime_type argument can be used for generating other headers, etc.
  // This could lead to security vulnerability. We don't want to accept
  // arbitrary value and ask each caller to validate the return value.
  //
  // If the charset parameter is specified but its value doesn't match the
  // token production defined in RFC 7230, this method simply fails and returns
  // false.
  //
  // If there's any other grammar violation in the URL, then this method will
  // return false. Output variables may be changed and contain invalid data. On
  // success, true is returned.
  //
  // OPTIONAL: If |data| is NULL, then the <data> section will not be parsed
  //           or validated.
  //
  static bool Parse(const GURL& url,
                    std::string* mime_type,
                    std::string* charset,
                    std::string* data);
};

}  // namespace net

#endif  // NET_BASE_DATA_URL_H_