On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 02:21:54PM -0500, amit paliwal wrote:
> > As Curl provides many useful options to set with curl_easy_perform(), but
> > I don't see any option that takes whether we want to apply Base64
> encoding and
> > decoding or not. There are API's available, which I can use from my
> application
> > code directly, API's are:
> >
> > Curl_base64_encode()
> > Curl_base64_decode()
> >
> > Do I need to use them explicitly, or there is some other way of using it
> too.
>
> libcurl base64-encodes control data in a few places automatically when
> required (e.g. for Basic authentication), but it won't encode data. If your
> application requires base64-encoded data, it will need to be so encoded in
> the
> app. And those two functions are not actually part of the libcurl API, so
> they aren't even available for use in apps, anyway.
>
> So does it mean that if I use TLS and HTTPS I need not to apply it
separately and it will be done automatically??????

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Amit

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