On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> > Any chance you gzip-guys could help me out and produce one or more test
> > cases that exercise this code in a controlled manner?
>
> I took a stab at implementing a test for this, but the test harness doesn't
> seem to provide a way to allow binary data to be sent or checked. Any
> gzip-encoded data suitable for a test seems to require at least 3 NUL bytes
> at the very least, and perl seems to choke on that. I could do it if the
> file format were extended to support binary data, perhaps by adding an
> optional tag element like:
>
> <data encoding=base64>
>
> to the appropriate sections to specify that the data in the file must be
> base64-decoded before being passed to the test script.

A fair suggestion indeed.

I'll try to take a stab at this soon, unless anyone else beats me to it.

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 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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