Thanx for this insight. I learned something about encoding. I wud assume the
problem could be either in the callback I have registered for libcurl
(something to debug) or the data actually is corrupted (Not a problem at my
side).

If there is any problem in my callback, does anybody has some suggestions on
debugging tips for something for this.

Gracias,
amit

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Storner [mailto:henrik-curl_at_hswn.dk]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:25 AM
To: curl-library_at_lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Problem with binary data

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:10:22AM -0500, Sharma, Amit wrote:
>
> 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.

Encoding of mails is required because the mail protocol (SMTP) explicitly
limits data to 7-bit ASCII. This restriction is not present in the HTTP
protocol, and thus no encoding is needed.

The underlying transport protocol (TCP/IP) also supports pure binary data
without any encoding. So actually mail/SMTP is the exception.

-- 
Henrik Storner <henrik_at_hswn.dk> 
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