title: Why is my bas64 encoded image creating a http request?
body: <p>I have encoded all the images in my css to base64 encoded data to reduce the number of http requests in the website. However, it appears that there is still an http request for the data encoded images as you can see below.<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/iF9Pk.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>I tried checking for a solution on the web but everywhere it says that there should be no http request for images which are encoded to base64. What am I doing wrong ?</p>