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data-URLs might also work. They are directly embedded in the document, so they should not break. Some ancient browsers (Internet Explorer) can't handle them, but most browsers can. A little disadvantage is that data URLs use base64, so they inflate the image by one third. One should optimize the images for size before converting them to base64.

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by LanX (Saint) on May 01, 2017 at 11:29 UTC
    Yes i found discussions pointing to them.

    I think the main concern is to keep CPAN small.

    Not sure if there is a quota limiting uploads.

    For instance when running CPAN::Mini I wouldn't be too happy to have my disk bloated with image files of an obscure module.

    OTOH Mini allows setting filters.

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