Terence Eden on Nostr: Found a website which accepted a URl fragment of Base64 encoded zlib compressed text ...
Found a website which accepted a URl fragment of Base64 encoded zlib compressed text - which it then unzipped and displayed.
example.com/#H4sIAAAAAAACA3N....
Annoyingly / thankfully, the display function sanitised anything before displaying.
Quite a neat hack if you need to pass a large chunk of data across a character-limited format.
Published at
2024-02-09 11:06:22Event JSON
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