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Re: Git-aware HTTP transport

From
Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date
Aug 28, 2008, 17:38 UTC
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On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:
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>>> except that HTTP cannot transport binary data, if you feed it binary data
>>> it then encodes it into 7-bit safe forms for transport.
>> 
>> So then how does it transport a GIF file to my browser?  uuencoded?
>
> something like that. it uses the mimetype mechanisms to identify the various 
> pieces and encodes each piece (if nothing else it needs to make sure that 
> the mimetype seperators don't appear in the data) uuencode is one of the 
> available mechanisms.

No. HTTP is 8bit clean and sends and receives binary just fine. You seem to think of SMTP or something.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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