I read somewhere that most browsers have a practical limit to what you can paste in. What I should have written was that it would fit in an address bar. shrug
The "data:" URL scheme is only useful for short values. Note that
some applications that use URLs may impose a length limit; for
example, URLs embedded within <A> anchors in HTML have a length limit
determined by the SGML declaration for HTML [RFC1866]. The LITLEN
(1024) limits the number of characters which can appear in a single
attribute value literal, the ATTSPLEN (2100) limits the sum of all
lengths of all attribute value specifications which appear in a tag,
and the TAGLEN (2100) limits the overall length of a tag.
These are references to (theoretical) limitations in HTML/SGML. They are not limitations of the data URL scheme.
Also note that bytex64’s page doesn’t use a link; it just shows the data URL so you can copy and paste it. Either way, none of the above limitations apply here.
