The blob URI scheme, also known as an object URL, is a
Uniform Resource Identifier
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies. URIs may be used to identify anything, including real-world objects, such as people and places, conc ...
(URI) scheme used for accessing locally generated data via
APIs designed to work only with
URL
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed as a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifie ...
s. A blob URI looks like
blob:http://example.com/550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000, with the end of the URI being a
universally unique identifier.
See also
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data URI scheme
The data URI scheme is a uniform resource identifier (URI) scheme that provides a way to include data in-line in Web pages as if they were external resources. It is a form of file literal or here document. This technique allows normally separate ...
References
Unique identifiers
URI schemes
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