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Re:Show HN: Shortly, a serverless pastebin by est on Thursday April 12, 2012 @11:10PM (#3835239)
why not sending this directly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme

    data:text/html;charset=utf-8,Hi HN
Re:Show HN: Shortly, a serverless pastebin by JoshTriplett on Friday April 13, 2012 @01:59AM (#3835559)
Re:Show HN: Shortly, a serverless pastebin by lucaspiller on Friday April 13, 2012 @03:07AM (#3835723)
datauri encoded would be larger (this is deflated before being based64 encoded), and the formatting for the docuent needs to be encoded within the URL where as this doesn't. Plus it doesn't make a cool HN story :P