From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:38:59 GMT
Subject: Re: Git-aware HTTP transport
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0808281937580.10660@yvahk3.pbagnpgbe.fr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0808281033070.2713@asgard.lang.hm>

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, david@lang.hm wrote:

>>> 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.

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  / daniel.haxx.se