I would think that encoding is necessary for the similar reason why we do
MIME encoding/ base64 encoding prior to transmission. Though am not an
expert to comment on this, however, we have faced problems if data is sent
over network and involving multi OS without encoding the binary content.

Am not an expert of HTTP either so could anybody suggest if there is a
difference in the way in which HTTP handles data? How does it treat binary
data??

This would help me in focusing on to debug the right thing.

Gracias,
amit

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik-curl_at_hswn.dk]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 10:51 AM
To: curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Problem with binary data

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:23:04AM -0500, Sharma, Amit wrote:
>
> It is sad that the server is responding the binary data without
> actually encoding it.

"Sad" - what makes you say that? Both servers and client are much better off
without any encoding of the data; it would just be unneeded overhead.

Henrik

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