What problem are you trying to solve?

In my use-case I have to handle both regular URLs and data: URIs. Adding support for data: protocol would increase compatibility with fetch (which handles them). You can check node-fetch implementation (they use data-uri-to-buffer package)

Describe the feature

Detect if URI starts with data: prefix - in that case try to decode it and resolve as decoded string.

Checklist

• I have read the documentation and made sure this feature doesn't already exist.