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.

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