On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, amit paliwal wrote:
>
> 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??????
>>
>
> It means that libcurl provides an API to do data transfers. You can use
> that API as documented. libcurl offers transfers using a larger amount of
> different protocols, and some of those protocols do sometimes require that
> data is sent base64-encoded and then libcurl will do so.
>
> I tried using curl_base64.h, but when i installed the curl package, i did
not found this .h file in my /usr/local/include/curl directory where other
.h files like curl.h are present. Do i need to enable it with some
particular option.

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