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Re: conversion from binary string to base64

From: Richard Atterer <richard_at_2007.atterer.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:36:32 +0200

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:16:47PM +0200, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> libcurl doesn't touch the data it transfers. It sends whatever you ask it
> to send. In url-encoding space is converted to + so I guess that's what
> your receiving end is decoding or trying to decode.

Right - if you use HTTP GET to transfer the string (in many cases, this
will also happen with PUT), then "+" is a reserved character (see RFC
2396). You must escape it for it to actually reach the server. The clean
solution is to replace "+" with "%2b" at the client side!

Cheers,

  Richard

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Received on 2007-09-26