On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
except that HTTP cannot transport binary data, if you feed it binary data
it then encodes it into 7-bit safe forms for transport.
So then how does it transport a GIF file to my browser? uuencoded?
something like that. it uses the mimetype mechanisms to identify the various
pieces and encodes each piece (if nothing else it needs to make sure that
the mimetype seperators don't appear in the data) uuencode is one of the
available mechanisms.
No. HTTP is 8bit clean and sends and receives binary just fine. You seem to
think of SMTP or something.
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