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wingi
on Oct 23, 2023
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Base64 Encoding, Explained
Gzip will fix this problem. But these ebessed imgaes are not cache-able.
neallindsay
on Oct 23, 2023
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Gzip or Brotli will help, but the result will still be bigger when base64 is in the middle.
Sohcahtoa82
on Oct 23, 2023
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The only problem with using any sort of compression in HTTP is that unless you add extra countermeasures, you open your page up to the BREACH vulnerability:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREACH
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