Index: includes/common.inc
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--- includes/common.inc	(revision 0)
+++ includes/common.inc	(working copy)
@@ -1931,10 +1931,35 @@
     $last = $path;
     $path = preg_replace('`(^|/)(?!\.\./)([^/]+)/\.\./`', '$1', $path);
   }
+
+  $path2 = substr($path, strlen(base_path()));
+  // Embed images that are less then 1K in size.
+  if ($image = image_get_info($path2)) {
+    if ($image['file_size'] < 1024) {
+      $path = data_uri_scheme($path2, $image['mime_type']);
+    }
+  }
+
   return 'url('. $path .')';
 }

 /**
+ * Generate data URI scheme to be used inside url() attribute.
+ *
+ * @param $file
+ *   File path to generate data URI scheme from.
+ * @param $mime
+ *   MIME type of file, e.g. image/png, image/gif.
+ * @return
+ *   Data URI scheme to be used inside url() attribute.
+ */
+function data_uri_scheme($file, $mime) {
+  $contents = file_get_contents($file);
+  $base64 = base64_encode($contents);
+  return 'data:'. $mime .';base64,'. $base64;
+}
+
+/**
  * Loads the stylesheet and resolves all @import commands.
  *
  * Loads a stylesheet and replaces @import commands with the contents of the