An improved Base64 was added to a "binary" subpackage of codec. Martin Redington who is involved in xml-rpc submitted this version of the class as he has been actively contributing to the xml-rpc effort. This new version of the Base64 class improves performance of the decode and also is more compatible with RFC. There is a thread on rpc-dev to this effect:
http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?[EMAIL PROTECTED]&m sgNo=713 So, [codec] now contains an implementation compatible with the xml-rpc project, and the next step is to reconcile this version with the needs of [httpclient]. Possible controversy here may be that the RFC was interpreted as requiring a terminating newline. The RFC also mentions that a warning or exception should be thrown when the encoder/decoder encounters invalid characters or whitespace. My proposal is that we add a series of boolean flags, int fields to the method signature to allow client projects to specify different levels of RFC compliance. public static byte[] encode( byte[] binaryData ) throws EncoderException public static byte[] encode( byte[] binaryData, int errorLevel ) throws EncoderException Where errorLevel would be either Base64.IGNORE, Base64.WARN, or Base64.EXCEPTION -------- Tim O'Brien --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
