#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
import mimetypes
import base64
import webbrowser

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
  print "Usage:", sys.argv[0], "file-to-encode"
  sys.exit(2)

fileSpec = sys.argv[1]

try:
  inFile = open(fileSpec, 'r')
except IOError:
  print "Can't open file", sys.argv[1] + ", exiting..."
  sys.exit(3)

contents = inFile.read()

type = mimetypes.guess_type(fileSpec)[0]

if type == None:
  type = "application/octet-stream"

url = "data:" + type + ";base64," + base64.b64encode(contents)

print url

inFile.close()